PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1397c57aef3ec369

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.6 KB Created: 2010-08-13 11:20:56 Authoring application: popeFas popeDos

MD5: e97fdf96edcf0f49135c412cf5422253 SHA-1: fb0cc8e13b1d7f1a3d74679f619f64e6b2fdf035 SHA-256: 1397c57aef3ec369b8094a68a78341f41b23d303fdd5b1285dd341c360bc1263

158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF sample contains XFA form elements which are known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. The presence of XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code and embedded script payloads strongly indicates that the document is designed to execute malicious code. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as highly malicious. No specific family could be identified, but the technique suggests a downloader or dropper.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

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.
XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY

PDF contains XFA script content with heap-spray or shellcode-like JavaScript markers such as large encoded word sequences, util.pack, large arrays, or spray variable names. This is a weaponised Adobe Reader exploit pattern, not a normal interactive form.
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 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xF05	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0xFB6	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `c5b3b2abe016a86ea1d5ae7ccd654f306c368d055e87ba470bf68802265aeffe`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x10A9	25037 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x3E33	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `36d7e0e7e9aeff7c3e23128a1c85e53372d81cce011f6f81c5881a4b02479675`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x3F24	131 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0013.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x3FE1	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4088	56 bytes

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