Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c61e98094f69978b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.9 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 00cc8e55ec095ba995dd18edda13e972 SHA-1: 325b7e92e6c25d8aeb55ff09e33e4b19e3c8baf2 SHA-256: c61e98094f69978bfcc8097dd223012c1c6d27926018759dd7bac67f096b59c3
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple high-severity heuristic firings indicating the presence of executable script and an eval() call, strongly suggesting it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81. The embedded script payload is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • 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
  • 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 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xD7 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
e2e0f6c5cb2e0b2697da89386bfc3718eedaf1b6a2b1d24dd1176d27117bf77a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x162 781 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
7844c116af1c1451a0f7f34fd03df8c42041e892957a764609911de2ae938c6f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x4BA 89 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
96c69378f25a4f67ac20f17acb645c2043db0583e3b54695fa1fa9b0a3b16dbe
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x55E 16292 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x454D 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
2594d0f7d712468f434d7ea42919f70e715c26bd47a310151c1808a325101d07
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x46DA 161 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x47C1 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
78b09463af5cd373870eae2e3e83de87b7f6b659e0d0117ab4c09d90ebb2ad95
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x4855 68 bytes