PDF malware analysis — malicious · 20a9d924c76a1930

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB

MD5: 70e739dd93a0a5f20ab3e66d55b7bc05 SHA-1: 0de44cadc1f44ea88a05fd784067ac67afe45901 SHA-256: 20a9d924c76a1930e451bcf2c77b31913700dfbfda42ce91548384f198cd3048

118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains multiple high-severity heuristics indicating embedded executable scripts and XFA form usage, which are often leveraged for malicious purposes. The presence of an embedded script payload and the 'eval()' call strongly suggest the execution of arbitrary code. The file also contains numerous embedded artifacts, one of which, 'embedded_file_obj0010.bin', was flagged as a suspicious extracted artifact with script obfuscation indicators. This points to a likely attack pattern involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to deliver and execute a malicious payload.

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.
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
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
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` `04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7	67 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `10524c8841105d398f3e8e8c790bc322eaa76a0f71d67929337ac5d9e1752e52`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162	815 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `73ec5073804e2a11b9b416ec3d0b60ddf3db9ee1c7dbbd9d2aa922ca62c8163d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4DC	80 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `1ec5ac3f97e684b70b5a53c42def3291e0226de89c953761261d6cf10d16badf`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x577	69859 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x116A5	389 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `9f69c42e66b0c1666412737dc9cf4aa42379ee793c4ad8d07130781756ea33d5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x11877	65 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x11902	147 bytes

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