Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eaf445d02fcca7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.4 KB Created: 2011-05-04 16:50:35 Authoring application: sea fib
MD5: 34950d1b3fd04c44c95362ed343f0498 SHA-1: 1aad025215f40c2991f4b7fd8da5fb45fba53604 SHA-256: 6eaf445d02fcca7bc244c3bb6ab2b18c23cbdb90a53111182fb228bdfe3ef5b4
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF utilizes XFA forms with embedded JavaScript, triggering a heap spray exploit. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicated by the critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY heuristic. The embedded file obj0019.bin is likely the second-stage payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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_obj0002.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0xDB5 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0003.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0xE66 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0xF57 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
823fa9633fd74bba61687fdab419aeea48b4a6cb1b4ed1afeaa32ee109b5cae4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1048 119 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x1100 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x11A7 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0019.bin
b0df6dd3f4547736bd192e1a03909b5a2131b4f0277a5e015bfe0c5db8db6302
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0x14E1 11291 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).