Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2163fabaed6d2d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

19.4 KB Authoring application: .132.141.72.156.133.148.141.130.147.136.142.141.63.126.104.82.71.126.104.80.72.154.145.132.147.92.70.70.90.133.142.145.71.136.92.79.90.136.91.126.104.80.77.139.132.141.134.147.135.90.136.74.92.81.72.1 (via .126.104.84.156.133.148.141.130.147.136.142.141.63.126.137.82.71.72.154.126.137.83.92.126.139.84.71.72.90.136.133.71.126.137.83.91.88.79.79.79.72.154.126.137.84.92.70.142.74.148.96.114.137.134.134.134)
MD5: 9455134d4aa3b55329c7188cddd755c2 SHA-1: 82c2f0292208984257a6b1849d1ba88dd4de896f SHA-256: c2163fabaed6d2d1043ab0e0de49b788acf627b16b800c459a7ff11e135d0476
74 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.007 Scripting: JavaScript

The PDF file contains an XFA form with a high-severity heuristic indicating risky executable script content. This script is likely designed to exploit the PDF viewer, potentially leading to the execution of embedded files or further malicious actions. The presence of embedded files and the XFA script strongly suggest an attack pattern aimed at exploiting document vulnerabilities.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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
  • String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE
    String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x39D3 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
b40a217a8d9b8d3671cc3874c550d30941b93ca6dde99995d43921dede579865
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x3A85 1183 bytes
embedded_file_obj0043.bin
7603a3f3555a44eccaa71e4b2011b76cd9a84809b906d7f87e085ee82c67299d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x3CD5 1719 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x40AB 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x4157 77 bytes
font_00_cff_off0000426b.bin
062eede2d0cc5d3972869dc7e2f2f9f01d1d1b3756b715c8252f06948ce99ae2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x426B 1192 bytes