PDF malware analysis — malicious · 23d90ec3d5c51a57

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB

MD5: 4597a0e3bc5ac2d4da7e187185e13af5 SHA-1: 959008b95014456ab14dcdbaf83b80a7796153f1 SHA-256: 23d90ec3d5c51a57d8e0faa263eb39b0a3c578cd347dc0346a4bebae47dfeaf7

118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains multiple high-severity heuristics indicating the presence of executable script and embedded files. Specifically, PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT firings suggest that JavaScript is being used to execute code. One of the embedded files, embedded_file_obj0010.bin, was flagged as a suspicious extracted artifact with script obfuscation indicators. This points to a likely attack pattern where the PDF acts as a dropper for malicious scripts or payloads.

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` `8f8ac7002e23d9a448ab40b53119adce8c933ebb91129d75b3695875c5742254`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x577	69178 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x113FC	389 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `9f69c42e66b0c1666412737dc9cf4aa42379ee793c4ad8d07130781756ea33d5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x115CE	65 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x11659	147 bytes

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