PDF malware analysis — malicious · c5bc3ec44f7f08df

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: e829e5693d57f416a97808431d025cea SHA-1: 296db3bce654d407fa922349eebf1966e9d2d7b4 SHA-256: c5bc3ec44f7f08dfeb3c18bdbad28eaecbfbe270ee7b8dc9f00f323483e06d3a

218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1071.001 Web Protocols

This PDF sample exhibits high-confidence maliciousness, flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81. It contains embedded files and XFA scripts, indicating an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities. The presence of 'eval()' calls and 'String.fromCharCode' suggests obfuscated JavaScript execution, likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload from one of the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
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 (matched inside decoded stream)
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
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)
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-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x176	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `2360fb6076bc8d72cb50fb4f9cabf129d3eb8ba470e30a21131d94ed2261f5bd`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2B8	965 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x532	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `4dc15e1d9aa520f72db9a6f9c38ad052f18b6de53889ecf9887978f54bf3acaf`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x624	34325 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
`embedded_file_obj0013.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x40EC	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x417F	56 bytes

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