Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87e021935f3af09b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.3 KB Created: 2010-08-31 12:32:29 Authoring application: preyBad cruxIce
MD5: 8312a4de59fdd533d6ba0b87974a8dc3 SHA-1: d76bc8fc6ec37f829be8390b25062da8cefffcb2 SHA-256: 87e021935f3af09be04ca98b17a9c8012b4e99dcd7d792e773ee98fd4c2b52a1
138 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

The PDF file contains XFA form elements which are known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. The heuristic 'PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY' indicates the presence of exploit code designed to leverage this vulnerability. Additionally, 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' confirm that executable script content is present within the XFA form, likely intended to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0010.bin' is flagged as suspicious and may contain this payload.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.

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 0x1223 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x12D4 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
3ec027230c618664b2d9086823e6fd95bfe6eb948314744e7911d856f72bf899
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x13C7 24528 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x40C4 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
cb61012009c3e37e25a8604e0044b3130e8bf2596ea56ba083fe14ae231c6a03
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x41B5 131 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x4273 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x431A 56 bytes