PDF malware analysis — malicious · 196b4a8c24391f32

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.7 KB Created: 2010-10-15 14:23:58 Authoring application: yen vaw

MD5: d2497d270f4c6a9ca01956fba4394a12 SHA-1: 8405532276659e7557b7c508be338e62b61b2960 SHA-256: 196b4a8c24391f32cc6ffbb29ccc36741ba2d2867d344b1ba329d261f43bb17c

258 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. The critical heuristic PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY indicates that the sample contains exploit code designed to trigger this vulnerability. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as suggested by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

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.
ClamAV: Win.Exploit.JS-296 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Exploit.JS-296
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
- 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_obj0002.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0xD91	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xE42	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0019.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0xF33	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `31f5aedad71f58cdda2662f0e242f75cc76ccd54d8d2c6562dedfe420c434e1e`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1024	119 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0018.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x10DB	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x1182	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `6a5d77316a63b8e5faecbdca718c32253daace8f51c21798dfdc5cd03b19f161`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x14B6	9202 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 6 long base64-like blob(s).

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