Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e65c3bf91184d5c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.0 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: QousEqysixinibafu Noqaqsaohuehumyna
MD5: 9e0701d187f91444e7347ca5e98c17ba SHA-1: 4ed85a18b64ceb34c6935d82c30b9bb5076f1028 SHA-256: e65c3bf91184d5c4ff994066f8ddb435cf5e1f1f5917fd7de793fe30243f2078
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The PDF sample contains high-severity heuristics indicating an embedded script payload and an XFA form with risky executable script. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81, suggesting it's designed to drop a malicious file. The embedded file object 'embedded_file_obj0010.bin' is likely the dropped payload. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URLs are related to XFA forms but do not appear to be directly malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • 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 (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.
  • 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/

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 0x19E 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x237 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
39b22b62fbc1072635c6e61e55e575bc933b4018ab50c5a2a59269ad7980f9b3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x377 1906 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x75D 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
d4386cc8cd8f33e9c00d2cd4c605a83ab1096a64dbc4fed8549c34e4f50044d2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x84F 29967 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x36F8 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x379F 56 bytes