Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1fa4169732e0737…

MALICIOUS

PDF

15.0 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: SyYvyw DpYw
MD5: fd9ec3c62edf255b1e1597f3b71d8cb1 SHA-1: b6e6d383092c32a2c047f69d3548b93415b900be SHA-256: f1fa4169732e0737f2594e41035e04fd1979443d8f7dae44786e5abfefe15f34
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains multiple high-severity heuristics indicating exploitability, including PDF_EVAL and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81, suggesting it drops a secondary payload. The embedded file object, obj0010.bin, is also flagged as suspicious. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts points towards an attempt to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a further stage.

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
defcf84fc6ec7374641e84ab2e3d631e11d728cb479ae8fc00892a6d94f5b7b9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x377 2000 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 0x77C 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
c6c81476d211a5b304c8b93db067e9eb85b0b6c647f856989d42cd38bf0c0dc1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x86E 29850 bytes
embedded_file_obj0013.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x3726 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x37CD 56 bytes