Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fecbd1fd0ad8818…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.6 KB Created: 2010-08-25 00:58:18 Authoring application: scagMun munPope
MD5: 6c284e0f35af0e7abb17a790285892c9 SHA-1: aa6c7d6252f259f57e87b92c311e25d6572ef854 SHA-256: 5fecbd1fd0ad88184298b0bca4946a5cb74db39ce32f9da6ab86c282fde71c7f
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains XFA forms which are known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. The critical heuristic 'PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY' indicates the presence of exploit code designed to leverage this vulnerability. The embedded script payload, likely JavaScript given the XFA context, is intended to be executed by the exploit, leading to a malicious outcome. No specific family could be identified, but the attack pattern is clear.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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 script payload in PDF stream low 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 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 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x126D 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x131E 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
82502705eb8da9e858ffaf1cc24840609c9e602a6a3bbb6f8b2303670ca2eec3		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1411 25283 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x41F6 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
ac0aebc8e377f094d4fddc3f93ed5d913a9e788221a14ad54c15224d3ab93128		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x42E8 131 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x43A8 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x444F 56 bytes

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