Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8151f2098538b7bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.2 KB
MD5: 4ceb1c2d3cfc61c1810e2e49374781cf SHA-1: ee3243c487b9aed93313e6adfb3a1497474c982a SHA-256: 8151f2098538b7bca9ce89a11fc8bfe7cb9e55504c4fa7b8073d1b57295ddc5b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious PDF

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. The critical heuristic PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY indicates the presence of exploit code designed to leverage this vulnerability. Additionally, the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT heuristics confirm that executable script content is embedded within the XFA form, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further supports the malicious nature of the file.

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
eff6a555a073bce9b13e0901c9ff002a70121b5ddaebd6dc5d3f814167ed6b2d		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11780 bytes

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