Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d01e03ef88696a37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.4 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 873c1b683191d20528b9c00be18b32fa SHA-1: 6b25725683e99853f4fc78c19f209d276b847187 SHA-256: d01e03ef88696a37664fc33dd9d57edeea853e2dff1d81fa79309f68c2a94ff9
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, triggering critical heuristics for exploit and dropped payloads. The presence of XFA forms with executable scripts and eval() calls indicates an attempt to execute malicious code. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' strongly suggests this is a known exploit delivering a secondary payload.

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
  • 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-template/2.5/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
78f9631071f03cd2eafd8de565f399d0c62edde5175ed6f90c6215135b7f3b76
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB 134 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
d4ff871de6628873a7035e48c3dfa9affd8413c4e514b4f2b79a912efb0ddaf9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x1AA 712 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c5bbdf7acf4596cc180a7c4624839decff89b15389785a7d5b4f6e59ab6b4281
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x4BD 448 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x6C8 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
23ca596743818a1e269cefc0b09b8c80bcea6f9080d265b146fdad81ff075a15
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x869 12295 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 6 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x14F1 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x1585 56 bytes