Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 028ea05b81e90e4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: b63ad46d41b879f6e46fc4bc9576421d SHA-1: 1ba16da37ccab935466eca79cd47ce9ff8f0d404 SHA-256: 028ea05b81e90e4dd7a5066e54f203565f9195bd99343e236811098e4d01916d
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The embedded JavaScript attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, indicated by the heuristic firings and the nature of the script. The script's obfuscated nature and truncated content prevent a full analysis of its ultimate goal, but the exploit and embedded script strongly suggest malicious intent.

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
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream low 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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_0000034c.bin
af30cace9ab798e3e7987ed78df90deaadbae2c26280080508d7a04cc5fbe37e		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34C 12349 bytes

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