Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c3d284b30a93a02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.8 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 0316cc6ce84b6c77811f256be133c15f SHA-1: 99c5f541cae9ebaedaebad504663a9ea62f65107 SHA-256: 8c3d284b30a93a02b546db68d8670b5ae647c3d8c42313184d4af8d495f20be1
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded executable scripts and was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious (Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81). The presence of XFA forms with risky executable scripts indicates an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The embedded script payload is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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

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 0x207 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x2B8 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
3e406aea851946ab7816bb63e6fd287243e54bf2eeee8a439fe02768ba57a2b3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3AB 1344 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x6E1 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
594bf5d617cd2562970a7c8827cd0994788a31bd328c181f95210e9d654841c3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x7D3 34149 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x428D 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4334 56 bytes