Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79ba035dd4b6956f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.7 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: a09a07503e4475c81ec3f7b6084b37cb SHA-1: a4334e1ce71e9dcb6907ee0302d0bbd1985c6be0 SHA-256: 79ba035dd4b6956ff82872f1ed4ece036a59a0bd1cdd4242eb74a6ed496b8853
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA forms with executable scripts, triggering high-severity heuristics for eval() calls and XFA script execution. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' strongly indicates a malicious exploit. The embedded scripts likely download and execute a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE' findings.

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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
  • 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.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • 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/

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 0x1E5 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x294 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
373607233bdfed187029eaa4aebf1487d4880a5c0b5aed653d16b091b3a724c9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x387 1259 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x694 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
539e0ed7bad78278dc50f01a935530eda42cebffe045465c347b9a176c8cd074
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x786 34221 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x41F3 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x429A 56 bytes