Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4f65a7fccb4a7c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2010-08-06 11:09:20 Authoring application: plusAla dyedGas
MD5: 7a3c1b0f4b6efaf8fe0b95da8590172f SHA-1: bfbd522b9e0d2287deac4d21378203b2654a6369 SHA-256: b4f65a7fccb4a7c1ce04f326bd938cdb4102a4fdb00dcc43dfebb070132ce3da
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that leverages a critical XFA heap spray vulnerability. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a known flaw in Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code. The presence of embedded scripts and the nature of the exploit suggest it's a downloader or dropper for further malicious payloads. The document body contains heavily obfuscated JavaScript, making it difficult to determine the exact second-stage action, but the exploit mechanism is clear.

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.
  • 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.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x2684 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x2722 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
b23c93a6413ce9f4cc4d7275d56d886e380be6341124135960ac186998e0ad0e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2855 30104 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 4 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x9E38 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
2930f5efc13135f182e81708956debeb3dbf7a7539785b80ea9c6146e57e85cb		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x9F4A 131 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0xA017 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0xA0AE 56 bytes

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