PDF malware analysis — malicious · cea1acdf928d85c1

MALICIOUS

PDF

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

MD5: cac209a095c6718a26c30adf31c84338 SHA-1: b3e89eed0986ae9102f7e5ccb8002cfc59f55a7f SHA-256: cea1acdf928d85c1e618e0b22920db917f6011ff4e42c65e7a17f653f7465d7b

216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF file exhibits high-confidence maliciousness due to multiple heuristic firings, including PDF_EVAL, PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD, and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT. The ML classifier also flagged it with a very high probability. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' strongly indicates it's a known exploit dropper. The presence of XFA forms with risky executable scripts suggests the PDF is designed to execute embedded code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload.

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` `ca2be03737dbe3430cd0ba63ed437c3ef97d84e04eda15729ca06b22ad419e50`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2B8	974 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 0x534	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `4f2172bc7f2d8ffbb7d648e9ba1a540945aaefea4f8d8ed3b8bf9934861603d6`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x626	34312 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 0x412F	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x41C2	56 bytes

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