Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fb21726c2e18af2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 4b8e16f59754f26e0ce8293638d5d6b6 SHA-1: 1bb09f4b82a3cc6a6d2b1f0a582f8a6613eded95 SHA-256: 3fb21726c2e18af24284eae4d1ab861e66d8cd837d591a91e3e2d5b3eb936815
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded executable scripts and is flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81. The presence of PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT heuristics indicates that the document attempts to execute code, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0010.bin' is also flagged as a suspicious extracted artifact.

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
e063279dc64f45e5fd8a3e0c526c1f12714d24c89fe2177d00853ac78ad43650		 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
ecf3e0554efd3f10edc5ba1ecc51e2fbd4f4ebe35e08a3b35e17ec79f9027b5a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x595 15746 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x4362 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
9f69c42e66b0c1666412737dc9cf4aa42379ee793c4ad8d07130781756ea33d5		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4531 65 bytes
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
129e4e726ddafc353e13bd03f15fd4d48ceb50aa28924bc8b406e3be1073b46a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x45B8 146 bytes

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