Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aed5019919082c43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.6 KB Created: 2010-07-27 17:20:40 Authoring application: orcMobs orcNerd
MD5: ba7434447711dbd4a1034f7f61f9b926 SHA-1: ec03ccea6b51a6c83099dfd1bbbb9f1920d59339 SHA-256: aed5019919082c4350a6632079f9e4862f80da746fdf953a3498668da1942ce9
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF sample contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which is known to be vulnerable to heap spray attacks. The critical heuristic 'PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY' indicates that exploit code was found within an XFA JavaScript stream. This code likely aims to download and execute a second-stage payload, as suggested by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' heuristics. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0010.bin' is likely the payload.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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 0x13B5 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x1466 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
b1b778a827e2755757b7812b44fede1ad025167ece118a1a494c990ac8c5960f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1559 29270 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x49E4 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
b3f054949c66ec79c2b3bdf322e5672c5181e8634b514ed34dd7f911ffda491e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x4AD6 131 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x4B96 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4C3D 56 bytes