PDF malware analysis — malicious · f9e66d034c316ffb

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.8 KB

MD5: 75eab6e87975919e3132ed870224307b SHA-1: 6c73353cf573d8ff3cb2e03288f32e0bd7be85a8 SHA-256: f9e66d034c316ffbc039ce429af658ab17fb14bc5c8839511955576da0817f0c

198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF sample contains embedded script payloads and utilizes PDF-specific filters like ASCIIHexDecode, indicating an attempt to obfuscate malicious content. The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' strongly suggests this is a known exploit dropper. The embedded file further supports the payload delivery mechanism. The XFA form and unescape() call are common techniques for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities.

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
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `f67415889f15b888d51b5731bf21b29336c44e9bf8ddf0b6da7ecae7687a829b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xE2	15227 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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