Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e744d398818d76b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.6 KB
MD5: 4109dd86bd45b4077d91b36e8327cd79 SHA-1: 702c394743c5fbd051d5affe7368e68746ca396d SHA-256: e744d398818d76b0d53e12e5e1f1711b904c97f3b26a2fdc151007aee53092d6
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information T1059.007 JavaScript/VBScript

The PDF contains multiple indicators of malicious intent, including embedded files and scripts, unescape calls, and XFA form usage with executable scripts. The presence of an embedded file suggests a downloader or dropper functionality. The high-confidence heuristics for PDF_UNESCAPE and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT strongly indicate exploitation and script execution.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
7cf8ad49eb96758072e4db5b4c4d3cc41a08909faceae4d9ea80767dea183da7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xE2 15334 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).