PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2a4f8d3cc779028e

MALICIOUS

PDF

25.7 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap

MD5: 1ccf91099f66dee7fd9e154972909040 SHA-1: a22c152d9a344a29bdc0345a34b03a89392ed2fb SHA-256: 2a4f8d3cc779028e33a91689863e641d76d60068e642bfb30eb641e793c02d42

210 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains multiple high-severity heuristic firings indicating the presence of executable script and an embedded payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' and 'PDF_EVAL' firings point to the execution of embedded JavaScript within an XFA form, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0010.bin' and 'embedded_file_obj0014.bin' are flagged as suspicious.

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 8

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` `e2e0f6c5cb2e0b2697da89386bfc3718eedaf1b6a2b1d24dd1176d27117bf77a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162	781 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `1f75200dbc23b9db3b25cd182259bf51881accd21d80781883660f585a500921`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4BA	97 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `fbb61db5406a00a0316fcbea6f02b3da5ef9cdd3ab5c91e1bfa30578ae22ac08`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x566	23227 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x606C	323 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `9035511eba39b5ffb4bdec81b45c98867875af195e374d460662ede3e9237621`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x61F9	163 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 0x62E2	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x6376	68 bytes

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