Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25ae984611227977…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.6 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 9adca668b136cd02cd3fd091d5d258fb SHA-1: 5b1a18b9634d8d4973f865d38a3485983cb091f2 SHA-256: 25ae9846112279775c43cc90276792d4cb2c0a55a5f6fe1fede9d7a80d25b358
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to drop and execute further malware. The document body is minimal and does not provide specific lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
6b2260d3c78649345d3f0b850b831d545d33bb7017ccdf438cdfe1e9db7f2db2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x167 294 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
a4e7fc0559523fc43634e7ac4a621c8e46b4fff733241c41499405f234c91c08
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2D8 483 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
870f19e73f79a8696e0652576e511a56d6343d594091d28785816118a292d435
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x506 29263 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x77A0 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
6a34b324794c506fbd6dbfa05a2e584bfc5348352bd53c09255137659edd58cc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x792D 165 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x7A18 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x7AAC 56 bytes