Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68defda44bd71cf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.2 KB Created: 2011-04-18 14:22:53 Authoring application: yup aye
MD5: c875e702d4698ad9d358b9b92222402d SHA-1: 10834581937ff3e85c3886fbbd2e7c95bdf1a87f SHA-256: 68defda44bd71cf48693ad99ce4020b50556c001a5d70a9e2d4ff802a4874e40
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF sample contains high-severity heuristics indicating the presence of XFA forms with executable scripts and eval/unescape calls, strongly suggesting exploitation. The embedded JavaScript is likely designed to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for initial access via spearphishing attachments. While specific IOCs are benign URLs related to Adobe and XFA standards, the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.
  • ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85
    ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
  • 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_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x18FD 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x19AF 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0004.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 4 at offset 0x1A9F 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0005.bin
4f327053b704716b3d862a52da39a6b4e253159ccb24f1d92148104aec68e50e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 5 at offset 0x1B90 154 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x1C63 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0002.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0x1D09 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
dbca6d2acfcb23cb875b2eae658286477ea5c797e6e5554e89c5df5bf8f7644f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x2087 20814 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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