Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1410ac4e7be46f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

22.5 KB
MD5: 67b1ccad26f52f1a2f4305e9201a4f03 SHA-1: 7d35bbdd5875420fc0067911e21014b928f79320 SHA-256: f1410ac4e7be46f7d1f9c585aaca311d17ccc0e1a5300e41c7534084361474d6
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded executable scripts and an embedded file, as indicated by the PDF_EMBEDDED and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT heuristics. The PDF_EVAL firing suggests the use of JavaScript eval() for obfuscation or execution. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly suggests this PDF is a known exploit dropper. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is likely the secondary payload. The overall attack pattern is consistent with a malicious PDF designed to exploit a vulnerability and deliver further malware.

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-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
2741f9ad5bd69a52a19ab46fffe19b07ef3f23bc3c0ebcca0e377b0ef45ed435
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 22254 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).