PDF malware analysis — malicious · e967f83d2c932ad9

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.3 KB

MD5: 500341e300db51950f7cb4e8650a1a5c SHA-1: 3e8e91265bd5697005d5174a8473ee75d226efad SHA-256: e967f83d2c932ad9db33e1a13ee5e0928f81b357f3781556a5af557e4052c022

238 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file contains XFA form elements with embedded JavaScript that triggers a heap spray exploit. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, as indicated by the critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The exact payload and delivery mechanism are not fully discernible due to obfuscation, but the core technique involves exploiting XFA JavaScript for code execution.

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.
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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
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.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODE

String.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules.
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/xfa-template/2.5/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_pdf_script_00000293.bin` `74d528318a529a5687651aa2d4712b7e567237c54a2051019091dd5911fed91d`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x293	119335 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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