PDF malware analysis — malicious · a698b44591bd10ca

MALICIOUS

PDF

25.4 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap

MD5: 5ff674ba2e9fefd5898dd74239e8d21d SHA-1: 72e1e8b72d72406978a1d30f6ca44e74cf1ad38d SHA-256: a698b44591bd10cac9568f9a15779c36c6a0ea9f0f84e71392b53b3407d3fb3b

178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and triggers multiple high-severity heuristics related to XFA forms and eval() calls, indicating an exploit attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' confirms its malicious nature. The embedded scripts are likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, though their obfuscation prevents a more detailed analysis of their specific actions.

Heuristics 8

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
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
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-template/2.5/
- 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 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB	67 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `6b2260d3c78649345d3f0b850b831d545d33bb7017ccdf438cdfe1e9db7f2db2`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x167	294 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `65fd9d1ef9cefd96759a78e9de41be7a2234d32f84e1a299ce74c8f6e6c59563`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2D8	538 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `9201971c179692870130675256adf73a294fc534e861c57260892a3b9fb1739f`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x53D	22843 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x5EC3	323 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `3275499da31d53b3a1c3d0d6c34dac803f5035cc26f0d36814d0b437d0e21cc5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x6050	166 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x613C	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x61D0	56 bytes

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