Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdc0912e5b220ded…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.9 KB
MD5: 3b78b9a27ae5e293b2d0a76e4c1c5a2e SHA-1: 28a576dac8015e7dc3ee9b48dc17823cd2bbab16 SHA-256: fdc0912e5b220ded29fb25c761aa4602d590b8ec647cae0d16719c9f0a118be9
218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits multiple high-severity heuristics indicating exploitability, including PDF_EVAL, PDF_UNESCAPE, and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests a multi-stage attack. The script likely leverages these functions to de-obfuscate and execute malicious code, potentially downloading further stages from external sources, as indicated by the embedded URLs. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
  • 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
074e367921a42b23d9a5d5611b7a6d7209bf8af1947528ed0c568680a99be321		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 55449 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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