Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18c235248fe1909b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.7 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: ed0491fbba23af6420b14904ca6db996 SHA-1: 1d4385e78242d62ac6ba1a5183795ab659b13d39 SHA-256: 18c235248fe1909ba06dc9e89e08bf57130fc0f53d9f7748cfba9e808ef568b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF utilizes XFA forms, which are known to contain executable scripts. Heuristics indicate the presence of a risky executable script within the XFA form, and ML classification strongly suggests maliciousness. ClamAV detection confirms this as a known exploit delivering a dropped payload. The embedded script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x1E5 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x294 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
9dcd5ab43726ac345ee76e1d6d2f82194e560dd5b1b9e4862b235404e10d249f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x387 1252 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x68F 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
ad81dc34a7a45879d39b921b196ea79cd99c8882df9634b2444f76ccbf1de3bb		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x781 34298 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x423B 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x42E2 56 bytes

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