Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0048283343369484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.3 KB
MD5: 6f219616b1f80e36700945355b639d2d SHA-1: 7b4621dbc45fc1b6039cf129cfd4534736c308e7 SHA-256: 0048283343369484efd6548bc2616a8220754bab885f5d02ffc04a075138efff
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.007 JavaScript T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to deliver a malicious payload. The embedded script, although truncated, likely contributes to the exploitation process by executing further malicious code. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

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
247c4955c03798a637fed4ccfbc8ced5904a062c04f2203e4801946b897f4bb4
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 15927 bytes