Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccc51a205b449bac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.7 KB
MD5: 43fd29eae959d6e68445290bd582d7d3 SHA-1: 7b7014dd4f19343d0c3a8fc98e6db54770fb48d3 SHA-256: ccc51a205b449bac18e7df1850aaa6cd2b990a482bdbdc606356dab2e506afd7
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA forms with embedded executable scripts, indicated by high severity heuristics like PDF_EVAL, PDF_UNESCAPE, and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT. These scripts are likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities or download further malicious content. The presence of embedded files, including a suspicious artifact named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', further supports the malicious nature of the document. The extracted URLs are related to XFA specifications and Adobe, but the core malicious activity stems from the embedded script.

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.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0002.bin
0a2224c4023b216235b61c3fc4dd17bbfac1ab23a545687f51b97604cf654712		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0xCA 46 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x153 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
16a21777674c02ab2c3809046827ad032e8d7db847f6b70764cbae1a1b77aab6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x529 26497 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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