Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bdbfff0cc73160a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.0 KB
MD5: 523447e888fa8ae7d1cd4cebd14a4953 SHA-1: 9b1600119251270dfd4889cf7b755e825fa69a12 SHA-256: 4bdbfff0cc73160a644dd3f01c7a6cc4ddde8d4f72392fd37928a04215699f0d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains critical XFA heap spray exploit code and embedded script payloads, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code upon opening. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further confirms its malicious nature. The exploit likely targets a vulnerability within the XFA form processing to download and execute a secondary payload.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
e5c019baea822892f2e4b50589b69f6bb6ea1d3a9a61849b192f9c6ffce86f92		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11556 bytes

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