Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac2a2d42ccb66f10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: 89a321d9da8170ea9f342fa4908c7f13 SHA-1: ad445e52d88adbce38eac5d0acfe41b8c6893aae SHA-256: ac2a2d42ccb66f1064f5f13bcc9cb563c7678b3dc7d938fcd22ef2e08220b636
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. The heuristic firings indicate the presence of XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code and risky executable script within the XFA form. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0, confirming its malicious nature. The embedded file and XFA script suggest the primary goal is to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload.

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.
  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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
  • 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
58b77d4a091bfb890754a3ebd7a676d6cbbc0b7e26ed2978b9d8c57a6810554d		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 12223 bytes

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