PDF malware analysis — malicious · 25b3297963074668

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB Created: 2011-01-26 13:12:19 Authoring application: nip peg

MD5: aa77dd4977402d281ec3b19e287c66c9 SHA-1: c4d0be7d6c2de1a005569d466055d10f153d36ae SHA-256: 25b32979630746683796aadf39a2575926ff56fd86a30dd297d63358b953a8c0

208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The PDF sample contains XFA form elements with embedded JavaScript that triggers a heap spray exploit. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the presence of an embedded file further supports this. The document body text is unreadable due to encoding.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
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.
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
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.

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0xCB5	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0005.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 5 at offset 0xD66	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0003.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0xE56	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0019.bin` `7cbbe783cc1d58b1e39858b3ba52b74e06350ace73548db57593ab1aa0fe931f`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0xF47	119 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0xFFF	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x10A6	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `c13b424cd98d295c03f5e2fbd8d72d70e33253e63b3f594e9576c0021dc81776`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x13DF	11474 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).

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