PDF malware analysis — malicious · 303eaad42a9dc003

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB Created: 2010-11-18 14:03:45 Authoring application: sex ilk

MD5: 2c4426d855f792969ee475f335b32f37 SHA-1: 0557daffed4b4fda2f2613ae947801ab8fffee01 SHA-256: 303eaad42a9dc00328d35e29bea69227f7c12d6c3a5937eca66ffec123707537

270 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT heuristics indicate the presence of exploit code within an XFA form, designed to execute malicious JavaScript. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support a malicious verdict. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0016.bin' is likely the secondary payload downloaded and executed by the exploit.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7245613-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7245613-0
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_obj0006.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x9A0	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0013.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0xA52	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0xB43	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0007.bin` `412bd96a6fe971b04639062ca3277b84b88477518c64fefde1bef0017b6cc2dc`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0xC33	119 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0019.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0xCEB	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0xD92	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `9b0cba400803e5c04737c869f15e19c3f086cfd2c647336ae485e4dbfd93fe8e`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x10CB	11187 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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