PDF malware analysis — malicious · 42d7564019cfdb5d

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: d37b30a1d39ac867a3707bde855abb09 SHA-1: a4321d5134cfb3d6ea054999412f5d551eaccd4b SHA-256: 42d7564019cfdb5d3ebf448ad14d59baf24789cd163662d1e04cdcec13106940

208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF file exhibits multiple high-severity heuristic firings, including PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT, indicating the presence of executable script content within an XFA form. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded script payload is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' ClamAV detection. The presence of embedded files further supports the payload delivery mechanism.

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 0xDB	67 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `6b2260d3c78649345d3f0b850b831d545d33bb7017ccdf438cdfe1e9db7f2db2`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x167	294 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `65fd9d1ef9cefd96759a78e9de41be7a2234d32f84e1a299ce74c8f6e6c59563`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2D8	538 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `fff0cd99a59731507e9811861b824b6c3f3cc8d013ed2dda6e1d332d2d45ca61`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x53D	22670 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 0x5E16	323 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `3275499da31d53b3a1c3d0d6c34dac803f5035cc26f0d36814d0b437d0e21cc5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x5FA3	166 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 0x608F	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x6123	56 bytes

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