Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55335f49ff7b7bb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.6 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 03830fbbb9df441b15a151ccd68942fe SHA-1: 615019c0b4bfca5b2dac2e75a6853b1f781edb34 SHA-256: 55335f49ff7b7bb8eb7d5c653c310da2e800dba54b6cb12145533abf841a1d82
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded content and triggers multiple heuristics indicative of malicious activity, including an ML classifier flagging it as malicious and ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81'. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the document is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The specific embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0012.bin' is likely the dropped payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
  • 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-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x176 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
b829148d2c950a198b244fc65d39783ed190c5e9d336da796d1aee8e490bfdcc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2B8 1156 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x590 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
839cb2b7e345cdd775ff705113a90eba153038b5b20590bd9bc084e5629f09f8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x682 34537 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 base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x41CA 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x425D 56 bytes