Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d2a4a7a548b66a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.3 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 2a34eb19ed9cedace4f90d63f987e64c SHA-1: 6404edb11940a013d41b62ceb1f9279670f6dcc7 SHA-256: 8d2a4a7a548b66a7baeafead4e6f83c3c0ed714549e8f5e79e168f6d9e51987e
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits multiple high-severity heuristic firings indicating it contains malicious content, including embedded scripts and an XFA form with executable script. The ML classifier strongly flags it as malicious, and ClamAV identifies it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81. The presence of embedded files and XFA scripting suggests the document is designed to exploit PDF viewer vulnerabilities, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code, further supporting this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0006.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x21C 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x2BE 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
c2a7d7d034c46864c567c5f6f37b066ddd43ed2b6f30c7c8a26d7e56c074d2e3		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x3E4 1186 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x8D4 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
6e90f8ccb98b0bb8b23ac9271fcdbd4475b6f3944701160d81bfa8d503e9d2ed		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x9EC 9760 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x305A 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x30F5 56 bytes

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