PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2d16722e8f165a14

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: ebfba3a0907a9ca732a88ced45d42e32 SHA-1: a0da020ac743a21becf2a906d8bf783eb3a44394 SHA-256: 2d16722e8f165a1447ce0e5fd94a4bbef0d58acbd6d32f1aada6cecb26e3aaf2

218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically detecting an exploit and dropped payload. The presence of XFA forms with executable scripts, along with embedded files, indicates an attempt to leverage PDF vulnerabilities for code execution. The primary intent appears to be downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as suggested by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' ClamAV detection.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

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
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `78f9631071f03cd2eafd8de565f399d0c62edde5175ed6f90c6215135b7f3b76`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB	134 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `d4ff871de6628873a7035e48c3dfa9affd8413c4e514b4f2b79a912efb0ddaf9`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1AA	712 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `5caf52fd6223d795d9fe3922e895be93e34fbabca8fb4632df32a477f30d1e4c`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x4BD	462 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6D6	323 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `0a05f6b669f35352b84b6783f9a3bb19becb91919c118f1ea9c916183c737b68`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x877	12316 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x1442	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x14D6	56 bytes

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