Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 995507d4a34fdf49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.5 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: LulapilotywYgo CyjExzvylyttaqa
MD5: d79f6aac64eb90d8584b8f11ee892abc SHA-1: 59615fb09cf7619d145b0de8642c72a41b9ac6aa SHA-256: 995507d4a34fdf4925a6b3a8677e62163aff9f3f9500df57182dab48b759ad1f
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics, including PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT, indicating the presence of executable script content within an XFA form. The ML classifier assigned a very high probability of maliciousness. ClamAV identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81, suggesting it's a known exploit dropper. The presence of embedded files and script payloads points towards a multi-stage attack where the PDF likely serves as a dropper for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • 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 0x1AB 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
6b2260d3c78649345d3f0b850b831d545d33bb7017ccdf438cdfe1e9db7f2db2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x238 294 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
f7e0a3474001c51852027c4ae84e894713b8c62bf740dcfed728997725372bf5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3A9 626 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
a15e6cd2ad2300ae15b51afe4c6fe2df473ec1736fef6e80befb4d20cbef97ac
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x666 26674 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 0x6EE3 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
c2a93d986bf5ebe7ace4079cf2097568929c4393ac76984d215c8c8c08e1b87a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x7070 202 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 0x7180 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x7214 56 bytes