Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 003ee14172cbe7de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.3 KB
MD5: 1ee008a76dc6b9a74af44d80b888432b SHA-1: 788415fb45865995d83b9364d690f4d81b2faf25 SHA-256: 003ee14172cbe7de1f7821fc5dcfe13c5d7d3afb414e9745c332a7774e14a05a
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is obfuscated but appears to be designed to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin
aecbf86419b76572e684ddf6682e2c9775507b4c0f273c0a01035ece3e058a9b
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 15928 bytes