Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4f6583dd01eb41f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.8 KB Created: 2010-08-04 09:46:09 Authoring application: urnBoor hieGaur
MD5: d877b985921a28e0eb48c7be96bbe931 SHA-1: 3bf362aea9ac5c1078bcfb36b785e4adc131fb3d SHA-256: e4f6583dd01eb41f20bcfd63ebe67036b3c47ed0c6769c26742c33e2a1f254c6
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA forms with heap spray exploit code, indicated by the 'PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY' and 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' heuristics. This suggests the file is designed to deliver a malicious payload, likely an embedded executable file. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. No specific family could be identified, and no document body text was available for further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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_obj0008.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xF4E 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0xFFF 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
26560e442bd6a9f97b0761cebf3efff02b9032bca1b3a8b78446beecb7d7644d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x10F2 25402 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x3EFC 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
9a2a4a8a0ee4653d3b4ee700d4438a80b321b4bf3cdab2e745c128c632ff6d33
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x3FED 131 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x40AA 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x4151 56 bytes