Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d4c800fcc20838d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.2 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: Betuhvcxquki Yltnoooifbgcld
MD5: 3767ac73543887f34ca02b5050975031 SHA-1: 379a85cd3ce671cfe9bb4801f9178edf9990cc7f SHA-256: 4d4c800fcc20838db63d165bda0e9e974de4cf8436804a70aaaeebaab5736502
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF file contains embedded scripts and is flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81'. The embedded script utilizes eval() and string concatenation to reconstruct a URL, which is then used to download an executable file. The primary intent appears to be the execution of a second-stage payload from the identified URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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 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://67.209.224.57/f.exe?&quot
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x42 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
c929bc43094fe46b69e09762335deeb6741254c91fd044835cac59cf7c8f884a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x436 151 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
13fce9eff375d9624a4d3153de2a4fe4aa6075f5a66a5f9d0deddeb9e5537ee6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x512 562 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x82D 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
a5bffafabc1888cfb6bd349380f7cb66d97de140705778ab94fc6814a3c0b3fe
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x915 382 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
f71de64fbd4d5df8c59e5f3a6eb6c0ec2b6f82cf369f26f15812ace2276ca475
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0xAD7 292 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c260e6e2e7f6eec7b525d9070eb8d0d978be75d75713436f6d3a8a4a62c1926a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0xC40 14216 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long hex-escaped blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x440D 56 bytes