Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 004334d7163aad8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.2 KB
MD5: 455bb7e1d0ce48b1f8a84de7b45eb716 SHA-1: a32da7bbc18fa874d7d075d5c6c9e066ce0d7114 SHA-256: 004334d7163aad8fc09826c6e7443504055d5d4a0978f49898ca690c96e2b85e
240 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded JavaScript payload is designed to execute malicious code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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://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_pdf_script_00000238.bin
45587c7d15935884bd396cc4a88c120bea98156ed9f92f51da1fbc5ea05947c9
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113153 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely