PDF static analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 699f68fe351c9fee…

SUSPICIOUS

PDF

32.4 KB Created: 2011-04-12 19:13:42 -04:00 Authoring application: Writer (via OpenOffice.org 2.4) First seen: 2013-09-11
MD5: cbba00edb847699debca76149da6ec88 SHA-1: 0bb3e720687220a95b5665c49ad51bcec8ca7b1f SHA-256: 699f68fe351c9fee8f7abb77d3027c8923685d18c2212536f5ec8c708bdf8d9d
56 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits multiple indicators of malicious intent, including embedded files and XFA form elements, which are often used to exploit vulnerabilities. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. While the document body is unreadable, the presence of embedded files and the XFA structure suggest an attempt to execute code or download additional malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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/ In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0020.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 20 at offset 0x4685 28446 bytes
SHA-256: 4d22ad145bcc47a736f3ec665ce81cf65a6310601370a1fb2f0f293af72034c8
embedded_file_obj0018.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x7A14 84 bytes
SHA-256: d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
embedded_file_obj0019.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0x7AC6 228 bytes
SHA-256: 24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
embedded_file_obj0021.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 21 at offset 0x7BB7 199 bytes
SHA-256: c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
embedded_file_obj0022.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 22 at offset 0x7CA8 119 bytes
SHA-256: 846dfecc0c93797cb6db4301f6af323fffd76ffdf8c053c439495412785138e7
embedded_file_obj0023.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 23 at offset 0x7D60 77 bytes
SHA-256: e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
embedded_file_obj0024.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 24 at offset 0x7E07 56 bytes
SHA-256: 92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a