Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29fec1e8d0eabcba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.8 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 6eb95191e21dc9d18519729c91bb8af6 SHA-1: dd210b3acb86ab2cf070eda2f5341299bad687a7 SHA-256: 29fec1e8d0eabcba889c2584e21ebf0c25e9c4b2c79afb5d135eebfea98b1097
136 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 file contains embedded executable scripts, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT heuristics. The ClamAV detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded script likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, leveraging the XFA form functionality for exploitation.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x1E9 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x298 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
a7bcd0a3f9fbda59be6f45808e7cf9d1d2e4bd7f521b2fa4bd4afb745e46bd37
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x38B 1303 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x6AB 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
aaf1e12b4707c54119e6ce5890a8a7945adbc4865888e8f3b7e69632c9e8b4f7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x79D 34209 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x4261 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4308 56 bytes