Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeaa7089a08539ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.5 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 02b8f0c38ec616b9356e9160e02f3643 SHA-1: 5cc3d1a4d4bdec0319b731b9e61fe15b13a333b1 SHA-256: aeaa7089a08539ba3b0dd6b53b0254610a7cfa8bbdef976b51dd6df74178fce4
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script payloads and XFA forms with risky executable scripts, indicating an exploit attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URL, while benign, is part of the PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x13E 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x1ED 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
fe2005d3d18847e42e93827de497b5b63415e6d6a0032e1ce167489807764698
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2E0 1325 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x60D 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
5bda375d50ffed319bf854452194d0787661a369db335d4e32d3b1157e7cc684
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6FF 34096 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x4177 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x421E 56 bytes