Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fff300450cbf436…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.4 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: RaxOigeqan Ryhadurrcifu
MD5: 33fa17ff37c3255ed05ed2a6fc61187f SHA-1: 7840e8f4eeea0f8927b572526fec5fe155cdf541 SHA-256: 4fff300450cbf4365fffb3e16805dc13ca8921ae518ea1ab81d47f3f92627123
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains high-severity heuristics indicating an embedded script payload and XFA form exploitation. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' strongly suggests it's a dropper for further malicious content. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. No document body text was available for analysis, but the presence of embedded files and script exploitation points to a delivery mechanism for a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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-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
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x1AB 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
6b2260d3c78649345d3f0b850b831d545d33bb7017ccdf438cdfe1e9db7f2db2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x238 294 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
2a29f5ab08c8dfa02a39ee9e664018dfc5a418ef62b4964140caa6aca697db09
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3A9 584 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
ea9664ebfbeadfaf3dcc9629efa09e16dcfbe71f6afb8e262f4f3e735e22dff0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x63C 26578 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 0x6E59 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
8588e122b4d728c62a4ccd1a3b3593489c02a299a793ae4ab213fe9add2817f9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x6FE6 178 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x70DE 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x7172 56 bytes