Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eea3d4f2746c1904…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.2 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 585ec131007b9c2e386af489450a1005 SHA-1: 19394ef75178b8a3634ca8c52c4aebcd63826cde SHA-256: eea3d4f2746c1904d4b5ef10eaffbf322f197be7438af6323da6c0d5f23c6c12
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains XFA forms with executable scripts, indicated by multiple PDF heuristic firings including PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81, suggesting it's a known exploit dropper. The embedded scripts are likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, though obfuscation prevents full analysis. The presence of embedded files further supports the dropper functionality.

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
  • 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 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
5f70b878e3d54dde19570d8a7ff0baeaff8a890ed05f630bed70eb78cbc4a245
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x168 779 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
3188234f3b84627bd5bddd69d4c0fed95f49b97a07290021b72e77ebfb4d0772
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x4BE 480 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 0x6E9 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
58448c574331db73921e9dcc500c237c4dabb112b7e1bc3d0cad84e280dc55ae
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x876 12170 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 0x3846 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x38DA 56 bytes