PDF malware analysis — malicious · 967afcfedd3cdf55

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: 30eca40cf040967fc84f0b9b359d4b01 SHA-1: 8c1bdd8f9f9ad40f19fe7697d0e7be56bcbab100 SHA-256: 967afcfedd3cdf559308bcff2b4ddd5ca914a9a8e75ec688ac9f14928dbb92e3

216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF file exhibits multiple high-severity heuristic firings, including PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT, indicating the presence of executable script content within an XFA form. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0010.bin' is flagged as a suspicious artifact, likely containing the secondary payload. The presence of eval() and String.fromCharCode suggests obfuscation techniques are used to hide the malicious script's true functionality, which is likely to download and execute a further stage.

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
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.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7	67 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `e063279dc64f45e5fd8a3e0c526c1f12714d24c89fe2177d00853ac78ad43650`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162	781 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `c71f7bd5f8cfd3d96d0f285ff85e50c0dc94d73f0c5a4ba37eb6fd71317112a5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4BA	122 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `62c354599ab71b7ae126ac4f848e2e0347d1093696fbc8bc2ac6715675e25d8d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x57F	18508 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x4E16	389 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `9f69c42e66b0c1666412737dc9cf4aa42379ee793c4ad8d07130781756ea33d5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4FE5	65 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `129e4e726ddafc353e13bd03f15fd4d48ceb50aa28924bc8b406e3be1073b46a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x506C	146 bytes

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