Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5b308eeca47e03c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

21.9 KB Created: 2010-08-13 11:13:40 Authoring application: roueMay fieYaws
MD5: 1e4a5c8a71120a23230de7522b8316fd SHA-1: a2200d561b704fe143a9a713103e19e2789fea60 SHA-256: b5b308eeca47e03c94ea79c59c2e18395a46dc4a884554498373f7bb2740f231
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that leverages XFA forms and heap spraying techniques to execute embedded JavaScript. The critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY heuristic indicates the presence of exploit code designed to spray the heap. Additionally, PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT firings confirm that a risky script is embedded and executed within the XFA form. The embedded file obj0010.bin is likely the payload. No specific family could be identified.

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 0x1AEA 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x1B9B 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
6aa1636562f111bf4eb8f369ac162e31028fc56c75fcdb6a95a005c3cfe5129d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1C8E 28565 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 0x4F4F 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
3a906692ce74a03f1aa6ab34ed88ea7a7a7c449727f2ad1ff71df4d0a6c4e1c9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x5041 131 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x5102 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x51A9 56 bytes