PDF malware analysis — malicious · b48997ed02c5f8d3

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: 7039a97a4ad7e8d4da736e32443f2d53 SHA-1: f4356e69ddf7e80d799758d268221d7950184169 SHA-256: b48997ed02c5f8d3ffd8bdd2e58b1f2f5f47ed4044bbf8c51beca188fe7145ae

178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF file contains embedded scripts and is flagged for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities, specifically using eval() calls and XFA forms with executable scripts. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' strongly suggests it's a dropper for a secondary payload. While the exact payload and delivery mechanism are not fully detailed, the presence of embedded files and exploit-related heuristics points to a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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 7

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 0xD7	67 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `10524c8841105d398f3e8e8c790bc322eaa76a0f71d67929337ac5d9e1752e52`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162	815 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `0704e53451984cad637df829d928999f75cd61fcfe2c8b263f5b24d436f15c4b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4DC	101 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `88870dd931acb8ac618a84d63d3e17b08d4cd55e1d9a0cf01978c67e08f7603d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x58C	72243 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `6dfc2cfc739bf5cd5514e048143c782a1af7b4c86ed10bd88203471efa9b3fe7`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x1200A	389 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `9f69c42e66b0c1666412737dc9cf4aa42379ee793c4ad8d07130781756ea33d5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x121DC	65 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0015.bin` `51d6d76eddb1746e412f89f4d1c1b0d620c60fb4a5641c018e93871be63968a9`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x12267	147 bytes

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