Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9503abfdaa8b7c41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

25.7 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 54984017d2aab1853896614711c87af9 SHA-1: fb305f3e5cac6ff429c75d481d24ca9cf2ae11cb SHA-256: 9503abfdaa8b7c41a3fd48c0f45c2d4157f0c3f536628f910aaef5585d230ba4
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA forms with embedded executable scripts, as indicated by multiple high and critical heuristic firings. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81, suggesting it's a known exploit dropper. The embedded scripts are likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, though the exact script content is not fully detailed in the provided evidence. The presence of embedded files further supports the dropper functionality.

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.
  • 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
  • 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 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
6b2260d3c78649345d3f0b850b831d545d33bb7017ccdf438cdfe1e9db7f2db2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x167 294 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
0e185c7749b43d319e2d28ffb9f835806ac33e79aa50c0dde7072f064671cf2c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2D8 500 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
8f8780c3bb3b7ea9e291ce727b74d6dc71ba42ac7425ef556488ba548eaa9bfe
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x517 23132 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x5FBE 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
6a34b324794c506fbd6dbfa05a2e584bfc5348352bd53c09255137659edd58cc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x614B 165 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x6236 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x62CA 56 bytes