Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cfc908ccea9816b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.2 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: fgdsdas dsadsa
MD5: 6b725844692ab63900fbbc647cf36e6b SHA-1: 9283bdaae3b39f042c5705cf09f69842a5bb24ff SHA-256: 9cfc908ccea9816b51d7631a4511ae25fffb7ab06dbeb7703c51d7f629d602fe
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains embedded scripts within its XFA form, a known vector for malware delivery. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' and the heuristic 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded script payload is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as suggested by the 'EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE' heuristic flagging obfuscation indicators and an embedded file.

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
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://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 0x221 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x2C3 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
53c317983ad08cfccd510e8424a924d5685e63749a83ec3f7f774866c6d0679a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x3FE 1308 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x760 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
e6d22aae7fa7bc7f8d289678d13012df1195505c5a0a075b4ebc3e9e230ade87
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x878 11103 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x3425 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x34C0 56 bytes