Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95c6db59480fd9cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB
MD5: fed765e1bd776dcf90c5ed6956d19329 SHA-1: 5116baf909e89ce220fbe0b7fc50abef5e4e01f1 SHA-256: 95c6db59480fd9cb921da83ed4ae659eaf5ddc42d254929b66d0da9518c06a73
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded content and XFA forms, which are often used to deliver exploits. The presence of a PDF_UNESCAPE heuristic firing and an embedded script payload indicates an attempt to execute malicious code. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is highly suspicious and likely contains the secondary payload. The script's intent is to exploit a PDF viewer vulnerability, leading to the execution of the embedded file.

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.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
027126195254f93532c64e4b4d253733dfabad81547f786872c647a159b0679b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 70433 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).