Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db7737350756696a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.2 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: Jykzogwy Bivotadivp
MD5: a67b0c9bab831ffbe9641b3f9ba3cba8 SHA-1: 7b8999d9c22a805d68ee1f418f9ad1f813d94d3e SHA-256: db7737350756696a32a8b65d41d703b70583f7ffa81a834a6e12665bbf710524
268 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains XFA forms with risky executable scripts, indicating an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities. The heuristics suggest that embedded files are present, with 'embedded_file_obj0011.bin' and 'embedded_file_obj0014.bin' being flagged as suspicious and potentially containing a script payload. The primary attack vector appears to be leveraging XFA form vulnerabilities to execute embedded malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x1AB 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
6b2260d3c78649345d3f0b850b831d545d33bb7017ccdf438cdfe1e9db7f2db2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x238 294 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
ad9978f6f537df0e39fe4a3a36dbceb5bbca4a815313cfc729d3d81da3457e2b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x3A9 588 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36318
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
a4f72c898f76f2e913598d8f492dd68bc3742ee57c389c9c4038688a3d5b7571
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x640 26456 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 0x6DE3 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
33221d7a91cc8a8fd8249bc21c1d3af7bdd776841ba4bf04e1a7f03d9a1be660
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x6F70 184 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x706E 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x7102 56 bytes