Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7292c863dc9c3e2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.9 KB Created: 2012-11-07 05:34:10 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe Designer 7.0
MD5: 554712798521e4bdee9452fc76fd0bf6 SHA-1: 998abfaa1e4cee56eae686bdd679cd2e7afd0dae SHA-256: 7292c863dc9c3e2d0346fd9647054be96b06eb8a6f0af5baaecfa509d81f6eba
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains XFA forms and embedded scripts, triggering heuristics for embedded files and eval() calls. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script likely acts as a downloader for a second-stage payload, as suggested by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE' heuristics. The primary IOC is the largest embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0048.bin', which is likely the payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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)
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.1/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.2/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0046.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 46 at offset 0x7524 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0047.bin
f20aceb8dbc16d07642c756ca1ccc141a87f1f44f1a99949a4c6a6a8678b4c98		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 47 at offset 0x75D6 1526 bytes
embedded_file_obj0048.bin
e85149fb980ea3a22c43959e877b7c401d98a5185a82928919846a58b442435f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 48 at offset 0x78A6 6078 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0049.bin
0b7fe2cbe79087012463f41fc1327af7a43b4981b1049b2448bcaa170e431454		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 49 at offset 0x8515 171 bytes
embedded_file_obj0050.bin
cb11c8f9d1f88e25fb66ce82b3736fe08cf8253503209e92cac18f94ff0cdb0d		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 50 at offset 0x85DE 6434 bytes
embedded_file_obj0051.bin
57045217c453d4674a08ad8778674bf199a7989a9505424a1815c016e6bb412f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 51 at offset 0x8ABB 212 bytes
font_00_cff_off000012d0.bin
23831e143e2e1a484b95ee765b15d94562c951468b895c080e655667dc04ddf0		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x12D0 31178 bytes
font_01_cff_off00008c20.bin
37cdfe30992c35e17bb1ba4ec29152e690c0c6963368131281a230c707bfdd56		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x8C20 4074 bytes

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