Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2f1aee0871e123a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.2 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 71442178cdbf642eafe50090d6697d06 SHA-1: e94b10a171742e48d07580f5a4a03c7d09c8dcf4 SHA-256: d2f1aee0871e123ade11dace05fb4e9a8230aec6450bf403da3f56481999b402
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and triggers multiple high-severity heuristics, including PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT, indicating the execution of malicious code. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded scripts are likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the exact mechanism is obfuscated.

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
9b793552b40e36c3db52a34d7e81daeb56212350b6f0b1e8d7996b8f5773e15c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x4BD 472 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 0x6E0 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
57d78d0f8b2b6054f569e5148675d143905f86635b91c8e0cd33d5dfd976f84d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x881 12238 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 8 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x145D 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x14F1 56 bytes