Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d41ec63dd826c24b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.5 KB Created: 2010-11-12 18:59:18 Authoring application: mon til
MD5: 294d1f5b3c17f13b37cf962aa9e74ab2 SHA-1: acc67da843edfcf33bdc8766d83846a6156f98d5 SHA-256: d41ec63dd826c24babcb5e8b4b01d3fa1d4bf2a2845e1003b4eb8ce702c4378e
270 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF sample contains critical XFA heap spray exploit code and risky executable script within an XFA form. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in PDF readers that support XFA forms. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as suggested by the 'Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7308338-0' ClamAV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7308338-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7308338-0
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xD82 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0xE33 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0003.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0xF23 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
673744e36e917a619e6339420f4fe3e9cbb53c9113c9b88001ca07ebe64c4500
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x1013 119 bytes
embedded_file_obj0017.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 17 at offset 0x10CB 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x1172 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
0f38a3e11655421baf67f71441dcf7557691ce16c882ec533e3b9121c94a0312
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x14AB 11095 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).