Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a9ffc1af989cd46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.4 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 2af37eb376a5d58e95bf071906e78f03 SHA-1: 6df0a7e22a22e55a7fe91ebf9c16e1e937c27346 SHA-256: 1a9ffc1af989cd46be84666bf022bd7f9229f026bf1d172c7ac74a6569c0b2df
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF file exhibits multiple high-severity heuristics indicating malicious intent, including the presence of embedded scripts within XFA forms and an embedded file payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support a malicious verdict. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' firings. The presence of an embedded file, specifically 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', further supports the payload delivery mechanism.

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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium 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 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
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://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_obj0006.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x21C 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x2BE 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
02579fba79bcd097048416dd041ca8ad13d642834f3576c20f83b060116410c1		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x3FA 1102 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x6F2 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
747a81ba80ee582737c25fe315c69145aa4bf480c97a352034a995c0e23af34c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x80A 10407 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x30FF 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x319A 56 bytes

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