Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d8a4a09cf2477dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.4 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 899d695d785544630a3e27aafc60082a SHA-1: 0e2e399a6d7683f8a4a2968885c8b3088420c1aa SHA-256: 9d8a4a09cf2477dda4f6890ec68cbedf443e937cf6a85eec117e9fbc6cc379a2
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' and the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic indicate that this PDF contains and executes malicious code. The presence of multiple embedded files further supports its role as a dropper. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are related to PDF and XFA forms, which are common vectors for exploitation.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x176 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
a16ab067a8eaae86aa8ab0eff0e7b1665a7989072ab4640480c5fbf2b6cdcadc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2B8 1197 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x5A7 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
609996e43fbc797d5c1bf605eb2633c8f5d7874cdcdcda5ae174575fe4e7c7cb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x699 34242 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x4114 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x41A7 56 bytes