Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26907ab966e67526…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: a539c2031be244e06ebe7cfdca613b7a SHA-1: 4cac4ce6a7e74b02b6c9edc3eafb274f5176fb7e SHA-256: 26907ab966e6752687f848c63ebead74f23a94778f1cd222456863e8136fe646
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains high-severity heuristics indicating the presence of executable scripts and an embedded payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded script, though obfuscated, is designed to execute and likely download further malicious content, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' ClamAV signature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
984a346671265f638e28c6f18a78a6dac023cc310f32d8ad0ab6a680d4c92579
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 781 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
9e22ae248b84e1687a0129c0f1bf301d348d22522b1688ac09e97ea9d49f2f42
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4BA 144 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
5eef7dbbd5ab89f88f2bed2b064a0710ff99a1a7ac2b8420c2e79b7eb70e37e3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x595 15768 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x4378 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
9f69c42e66b0c1666412737dc9cf4aa42379ee793c4ad8d07130781756ea33d5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4547 65 bytes
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
129e4e726ddafc353e13bd03f15fd4d48ceb50aa28924bc8b406e3be1073b46a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x45CE 146 bytes