PDF malware analysis — malicious · ce63f182fd472ce4

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.6 KB Created: 2011-04-13 07:47:11 Authoring application: dow aim

MD5: 57dcee4d600a638738af97bc2884210c SHA-1: 708b2b19b5e8e44537d37205dfc54d8568e7d23d SHA-256: ce63f182fd472ce46ab87d52a563d6fd6afe78255392a72aa04e4ea1296cbbb5

178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The PDF file contains XFA form elements with embedded JavaScript, triggering a heap spray exploit. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of an embedded file object, specifically 'embedded_file_obj0011.bin', further supports the payload delivery mechanism.

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.
XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY

PDF contains XFA script content with heap-spray or shellcode-like JavaScript markers such as large encoded word sequences, util.pack, large arrays, or spray variable names. This is a weaponised Adobe Reader exploit pattern, not a normal interactive form.
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.
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 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x94D	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x9FF	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0005.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 5 at offset 0xAEF	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0017.bin` `56f5771790fb0147783ee1ba38d1a64b272abe9ccc9e99bb368cd82a3c9fd975`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 17 at offset 0xBE0	119 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0003.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0xC97	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0xD3E	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `ead09a51bc921b1d1753318b69bea9ca44b8fe77074bc96bb49b64e562063033`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x1078	11344 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).

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