Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 136953f5e2e17101…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.3 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: VawUqu GovEduhuxy
MD5: 664f524310c52572f80e35bb8c2d4da0 SHA-1: 947c51c438abd21920271bd3a3e69354567e8b64 SHA-256: 136953f5e2e1710178714122cd32a3f54732f8a531337e549c8baa2bd5ab683e
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains high-severity heuristics indicating the presence of executable JavaScript and an embedded script payload, flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The XFA form structure is exploited to run eval() calls, which likely download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' is included as a primary IOC.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream low PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x1AB 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
6b2260d3c78649345d3f0b850b831d545d33bb7017ccdf438cdfe1e9db7f2db2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x238 294 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
851564ab6049b7d755f239ad82ca11a73717aa8eeb7641d0e9510ea08367b040
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3A9 636 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
1a2184c7304ee13a853b5383880f0cc3e02dc3d0135c2f205fc4ab7616b0a692
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x670 26443 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6E06 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
6dbf5f3ba3c8f03753652707ec6a3262fcd9bb785d8dfce533abb77faa7487f6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x6F93 190 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x7097 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x712B 56 bytes