PDF malware analysis — malicious · aa88f19da6a8085a

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: c4d5228eea7f6a726751ff801bc1420b SHA-1: b4a48fccff46a0d6284f7dcb465c1960d09220ba SHA-256: aa88f19da6a8085a94c6d025477e68200555a3abaed35676bd204490691b2fab

208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF file exhibits multiple high-severity heuristic firings related to embedded scripts and XFA forms, indicating an exploit attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of embedded files and script payloads points to a downloader or dropper functionality, likely aiming to fetch and execute further malicious content. The specific ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' further supports this conclusion.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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` `51b79b2eab6b3285f33e7b4024ce0f32734487405a581314fb73ffb615611903`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x53D	22882 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 0x5EEA	323 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `3275499da31d53b3a1c3d0d6c34dac803f5035cc26f0d36814d0b437d0e21cc5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x6077	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 0x6163	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x61F7	56 bytes

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