Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a504d8cbd23f4369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.2 KB
MD5: 51c4436e183501b2ed4032a46fe6b31b SHA-1: 90e525f08e6341ed4b9c1ee7a3dd0523f7a86bc9 SHA-256: a504d8cbd23f4369d6ebe405645480413e071497423f73177cb3620f6298c14e
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains embedded executable scripts and an embedded file, indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and PDF_EMBEDDED heuristics. The PDF_XFA_SCRIPT and PDF_UNESCAPE firings suggest that the embedded script is obfuscated and likely exploits a vulnerability to execute. The primary function appears to be downloading and executing a secondary payload from the embedded file.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
145fbba91df49b2b7064e44ce1bf4af61c80d767723fb8cdd39e2dc74f89c6db		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 63973 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.