Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 992e16fc13faa4e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.6 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 3e06d6906d9a6f7b30c87043b6ff699e SHA-1: eb11cb87266b38a52b3e65e73bc1d1a56abcbbcf SHA-256: 992e16fc13faa4e3f29b8564c290acf0efb3b845900d9ff8dacc9a8636b34c28
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with the signature Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81. It contains embedded files and an embedded script payload, indicating it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The script appears to be obfuscated, but the presence of embedded files and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest it's a dropper for a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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 0x213 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x2B1 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
4f7b7ce31e747f4ea90beffb5b605c41ce46d3027a92f656d9f38f2ec5c42ad5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x3E0 1101 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x877 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
44bdf6f7c4bd0b7aa45a6c2b0a2caaa7036f07be59839c004f6c004788557f30
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x98A 6719 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x2413 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x24AA 56 bytes