PDF malware analysis — malicious · cc180c62936b5b09

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.7 KB

MD5: aade771de8ed6512a526c4dd398bb77f SHA-1: faaddc23e096f32188fc7d832196eb4ee276f982 SHA-256: cc180c62936b5b0958620046c2c2d27d88083c08e223f610810a82e8b1c9704f

228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1140 Deobfuscate or Obfuscate Malicious Code

The PDF contains XFA forms and embedded script payloads, indicated by multiple high and medium severity heuristic firings. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of an embedded file and the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' ClamAV signature point to a dropper functionality, likely intended to download and execute a secondary 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-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (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.
ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX

Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `7b39668cb3cc3963025c428e82c48ca63a6567466f42ea46d9938e4e0c98ee56`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xE2	15203 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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