Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a356154eacf11744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.1 KB Created: 2010-08-18 16:31:24 Authoring application: oarBoor boorDex
MD5: d174fb6118c8273114bc3e37dbac5934 SHA-1: 6c3e2b62c7f0abb4ce6512cd6b80f2d7bc3939fe SHA-256: a356154eacf117449073dca517bc5e567988860576f25d9356def6cd42b8de13
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Script

The PDF sample contains XFA form elements with embedded JavaScript, triggering a heap spray exploit. This script is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic and the presence of an embedded binary artifact. The exploit targets a known vulnerability in XFA processing.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY
    PDF contains XFA script content with heap-spray or shellcode-like JavaScript markers such as large encoded word sequences, util.pack, large arrays, or spray variable names. This is a weaponised Adobe Reader exploit pattern, not a normal interactive form.
  • 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.

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 0x112C 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x11DD 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
afdfd112dc12949f785400d1998d64f12efc9c670cea8abb0ddc3128ed7879f6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x12D0 24845 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x3FFF 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
9a2a4a8a0ee4653d3b4ee700d4438a80b321b4bf3cdab2e745c128c632ff6d33
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x40F0 131 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x41AD 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4254 56 bytes