Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dfedf065627cfa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.5 KB Created: 2011-01-30 19:22:59 Authoring application: all haw
MD5: 8c3a211d5db76a79263e58dbc8afd175 SHA-1: e161d58a314d15136b82549aced12931f3d787f9 SHA-256: 6dfedf065627cfa3c80761fd481c70afadb9ecc5a2abba35b2ad45e2cac0f385
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. Critical heuristics indicate PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT, confirming the presence of exploit code within the XFA JavaScript. This code likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, as suggested by the embedded file artifact.

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_obj0007.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x992 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0002.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0xA43 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0xB34 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
35dc3167a669fbf7e9162a20b585b4080b7133979bb01e25eaaeb4759e1f1bfd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0xC25 119 bytes
embedded_file_obj0005.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 5 at offset 0xCDC 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0017.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 17 at offset 0xD83 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0003.bin
7663f2bf93f7d534403ce4c71de07423cc8a7ed96fda4b72bd3f2e95d8d0650e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0x10BB 11197 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).

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