Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6329615d36554d37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.8 KB Created: 2010-09-19 18:27:53 Authoring application: aff aas
MD5: 4c92d27dad07e9f1f58c3569812f9769 SHA-1: 0c7a709d1f9c7c2b52d8154e313a9175f32ff20c SHA-256: 6329615d36554d3727bbfbcb20691ca4ef2f2c9034d8cad374932d37922281f5
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains XFA forms with embedded JavaScript that triggers a heap spray exploit. This JavaScript is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of XFA heap spray heuristics confirms the exploit technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • 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.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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://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/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA68 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0003.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0xB19 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0004.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 4 at offset 0xC09 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
1f627c71d65710ddfa486ef380a0335aa66ca44085ab5c46c9d004f5d10cfe65
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0xCFA 119 bytes
embedded_file_obj0002.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0xDB1 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0xE58 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
aace5f25d3cf207e534fc4655a780124c290e8fd51d583509c03e5977a63e719
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x1191 15170 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).