Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdeecef7efa47711…

MALICIOUS

PDF

25.4 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 7b965c080b7e2b3f72a02e34923a06a4 SHA-1: c952a9a58df97ed712184e52d1c5bed39ed8f9ec SHA-256: fdeecef7efa47711c39881f7a0010b720b5c8be398e811ab2c11fe8d153be445
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The PDF file contains XFA forms with embedded executable scripts, as indicated by multiple high and critical heuristic firings. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81' further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded scripts are likely designed to exploit vulnerabilities within the PDF reader to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the exact script content is not fully detailed in the provided evidence.

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • 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/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
04462f810d6eacdacecc9d0a5f3f81bebc722af4415e04da19b520338f642b51
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xDB 67 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
6b2260d3c78649345d3f0b850b831d545d33bb7017ccdf438cdfe1e9db7f2db2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x167 294 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
32735645b64751b47cc4a1d4a02dd207fd8fa9ea25a78fb5bd5dda9b4c9d8a68
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x2D8 502 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
f08b92bd8731a82e4a40ea934d56033e149c9f8bd62c7866a754ed796dac96f5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x519 22825 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
103d1e7983cf88bfacedddb4af33ffb5317d9c2c8b3e1bfd987b2c5d712bc985
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x5E8D 323 bytes
embedded_file_obj0014.bin
6a34b324794c506fbd6dbfa05a2e584bfc5348352bd53c09255137659edd58cc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x601A 165 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0x6105 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x6199 56 bytes