Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eb6aa70b4129ff4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

613.0 KB Created: 2010-09-11 23:35:31 Authoring application: Advanced PDF Repair at http://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/
MD5: 60baf65140c32f3ecd8617735a2710a2 SHA-1: b8cb7e72e051b34d6ba95cc8cc73edc4ceea022c SHA-256: 9eb6aa70b4129ff45660d92425cc4d11463ac55dca41938dc2560d53c6ac7462
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 JavaScript/JScript T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a secondary embedded PDF, both of which triggered critical heuristics indicating malicious activity. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader or to download additional malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF-specific heuristics, including those related to JavaScript actions and XFA forms, strongly suggests an exploit attempt. The URL for 'datanumen.com' was found, but its reputation is unknown.

Heuristics 7

  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT
    PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
javascript_obj0040_000.js
519a203f82a02b7050a36c35ae356164738d71dc68f65261680f686e5da3d109
pdf-javascript-stream PDF /JS object 40 at offset 0x20DA 12401 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
stream_001_off00000aef.bin
0f910ffeec733940f6ba1ae41dc6770eab5d615c05bccc95197878b62c8dc45f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xAEF 2928 bytes
stream_002_off00000e4d.bin
29cf1edfedd4f27f3c450646c5dc2510e6bf9e63eee1cd436ac517a465a2e1bf
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE4D 1650 bytes
stream_003_off000011bc.js
672d461752be4a970c8e9721164ce074d252b55d09d46cc09259d2ce4fc09f7f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x11BC 1546 bytes
stream_010_off00005a6c.bin
fe122a09d8a0444608fdc5a6f4981a2dbd469f5bbfacb4bdd327c28ccc343e13
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x5A6C 149 bytes
stream_011_off00005b20.bin
4a60a9864cdf7382475d51051a03fdc43b32c31eb508893ccfccece34957f9f1
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x5B20 56 bytes
font_00_cff_off000083e8.bin
ea8f409c7366ed46eeb553aa7b404f04641f482ba88463fbe253da60be5787e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x83E8 1138 bytes
polyglot_child_pdf_off0003c00f.pdf
974f6d58a26fe92b5f366564a51bfd7ec95d38e2ab6d0ef70f92ef59cce0836b
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0x3C00F 381979 bytes