Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 — PDF malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abdf3085df9f85c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.8 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 330c884b8d501b1fa6ce9514561f9bf5 SHA-1: 587ab3cb30dfdbff5ac4062e77f4eabce224a679 SHA-256: abdf3085df9f85c58f3799a048ee10ee6aa822b751050a38f801b5a7c1fd721d
276 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81 · confidence 95%

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

The PDF file contains high-severity heuristics indicating an embedded script payload and XFA form with risky executable script. ML classification strongly flags it as malicious, and ClamAV confirms detection as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81. The embedded artifacts and ClamAV detection on an extracted artifact (Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836) suggest the PDF is designed to exploit a vulnerability and drop a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 10

  • 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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules.
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
51a31f8558983c35fe5e038fb41aebaca8b406725509607307dd3926e5e2d540
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 781 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
c71f7bd5f8cfd3d96d0f285ff85e50c0dc94d73f0c5a4ba37eb6fd71317112a5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4BA 122 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
2ddd793266f2004f1cbda8e9a71b666dc697073f922eb1bda9162318c7da38aa
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x57F 18218 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x4CF4 389 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
5de4882c2ac3997ab05c26a9217ff59fa937baaa4c7c1e950171498dedd65b30
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4EC3 95 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36836
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 0x4F68 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x4FFC 68 bytes