PDF malware analysis — malicious · 48eb65e287a5c839

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.7 KB

MD5: 4b52b3373a38f72507ac3b1d5e91e4d0 SHA-1: 1e3d1e02e91cdcc93e966d8dce3d941f3f92d87b SHA-256: 48eb65e287a5c839ad4f67f3fa4b3cd2b534af86d8af8058150fd8bb07f306c3

178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains embedded executable scripts and triggers high-severity heuristics related to XFA forms and eval() calls, indicating an exploit attempt. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further confirms malicious intent. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the dropped payload. The script's purpose is to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage malware.

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-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
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/xfa-template/2.5/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `32b987e9dafe0189cbd8f9844e3f667eb3b193dd6d87c2c19f3d0aeae3f9428e`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8	23483 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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