Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00e37c7e7d811602…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: a4b5f830bf278069d45f4d5d4d2b0874 SHA-1: 4abe5817a3971dbc9147c6678809958553529f66 SHA-256: 00e37c7e7d81160238a1ad080772acf2562a4606217ac97b5a2a0dcffb23a4b5
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data which is known to be vulnerable to CVE-2010-0188. Heuristics indicate an embedded script payload designed to exploit this vulnerability. The script itself is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, likely leveraging the embedded URL for this purpose.

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
  • 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
  • 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://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
c3bd25837859c4f4c0db81d4e772f0fd9cacaf83d62736fe45de07b8dd90351f
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12200 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).