PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8b6793d0499b7a1e

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.3 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap

MD5: 6d5182371ed43446fb63dd2d6ae1e77e SHA-1: 1e805211bb53364703005a8df57bf8f3b1060249 SHA-256: 8b6793d0499b7a1eccd8c4b762265568a4b010cb9c5f47caeb0b46d64b0a97bf

146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and is detected as a known exploit (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81). The presence of XFA forms with executable scripts indicates an attempt to leverage PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded scripts likely download and execute a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' heuristics. The extracted URLs, while mostly benign or unknown, are part of the document's structure and could potentially be used for malicious redirection.

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
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
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x176	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `d8be69e9b6a1cd629056df9c3c7859034b0aa7bf0bd46d075ee7c3086c3f5316`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2B8	979 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x53B	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `e7245b4447869fcc41fbf8a536a0d745416541e878b4fa8f2d35d97080ba7e03`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x62D	34184 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0013.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x40D0	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4164	56 bytes

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