PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4be9731009a03667

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB Created: 2010-10-15 14:23:58 Authoring application: yen vaw

MD5: b5b9b6611dbad7c8d2d02c6d5c5857ed SHA-1: a43bbdf3e5864e7d922c94152f0fb9f564c1701f SHA-256: 4be9731009a036674aeeb0787e1c5363e881f7c9329d7b873c698cba08e3d15b

268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF file exhibiting critical XFA heap spray and script execution vulnerabilities. Heuristics indicate the presence of unescaped JavaScript and an embedded script payload, strongly suggesting the execution of malicious code. ClamAV detection as Win.Exploit.JS-296 further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
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: Win.Exploit.JS-296 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Exploit.JS-296
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0002.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0xD91	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xE42	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0019.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0xF33	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `31f5aedad71f58cdda2662f0e242f75cc76ccd54d8d2c6562dedfe420c434e1e`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1024	119 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0018.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x10DB	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x1182	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `a2c0fb07036d782459a5eb0be5fe7fa883155ff54d6e9898088619f71d36353e`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x14B6	9106 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).

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