PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4b3d4230a91c4286

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: 7c854e6ce9f0bf83aa123aae43afd4fc SHA-1: 6971617f23d98cae5b946fbc14fa7aa2abccdd30 SHA-256: 4b3d4230a91c428648fbc703ef93e329d9aeb473b36dffc1066cb83d77d90384

186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

This 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 files, particularly embedded_file_obj0011.bin and embedded_file_obj0014.bin, are suspicious artifacts that warrant further investigation.

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` `482c27a2d5c35d349896d5cebc6a1ae1de7a43b453e7b8f61a63e51da034e906`	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` `a4af1518e6f50ac12112e453b4c577e15e031835b831f9ecca4291bb42047468`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x877	12215 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 6 long base64-like blob(s).
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x14A6	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x153A	56 bytes

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