Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bbef216bca2591a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.1 KB
MD5: e42a3f47f2b8776e4c40b0b2c169bd2a SHA-1: 1cebd1aaf768433b550598e4c18a305ac786068e SHA-256: 7bbef216bca2591a1133222f246bf76c7d277f92b080a3c90a12bb94cc04c2b3
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

This PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. The heuristic PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY indicates that exploit code was found within an XFA JavaScript stream. This script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS and CLAMAV_DETECTION firings. The embedded file artifact further supports the delivery of a secondary malicious component.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium 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.
  • 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 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d5305612802cb493e9611b199db9ead8841ccadc90fc9ebd72bd3968751794c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11671 bytes

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