Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc8f0404fe61d3a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.6 KB Created: 2010-10-15 14:23:58 Authoring application: yen vaw
MD5: d7439053e83d169b65c44696efbdef42 SHA-1: 975b68a00aaa7cc7e204e0d33aef8ac3b26f87d6 SHA-256: bc8f0404fe61d3a062fb9904dee8c6f7e14c7fb87b99f90d325f199dba743e25
268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains critical XFA heap spray exploit code and embedded script payloads, as indicated by multiple high and critical heuristic firings. The presence of ClamAV detection (Win.Exploit.JS-296) and ML classification further supports its malicious nature. The exploit likely aims to download and execute a secondary payload, leveraging the embedded URL for this purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Win.Exploit.JS-296 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Win.Exploit.JS-296
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0002.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0xD91 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xE42 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0019.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0xF33 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
31f5aedad71f58cdda2662f0e242f75cc76ccd54d8d2c6562dedfe420c434e1e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1024 119 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x10DB 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x1182 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
a7808184b441e4200dab18a038084993753effecf7ae46203588c9c848cec1d1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x14B6 9110 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 6 long base64-like blob(s).