Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa77d634395a9144…

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.4 KB
MD5: 8e19d09c2bea2f3f5a838470f90d2f5f SHA-1: b597b0e7dbe2e695d08c01c56ea70b126c871023 SHA-256: fa77d634395a9144dd79ba38b362f3c41a69e5da62e9555ba2f26b1c8efd1967
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form with embedded JavaScript, indicated by the PDF_XFA_SCRIPT and PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD heuristics. This script is likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts is a common delivery mechanism for exploits. No specific family could be identified, but the techniques used are consistent with generic malicious PDF documents.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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. (matched inside decoded stream)
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_000_off00000e27.js
6082b49e21869af14bf758c157824e3286e555a86f43c21a45fd5e1cbe7be049
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE27 14724 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).