Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03f14ee6cb49eca5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.8 KB
MD5: 473c8d5d265f01974d36f9bd252cd73e SHA-1: c1284513da9c0460994303a28b7477bca09ee7b9 SHA-256: 03f14ee6cb49eca522c96bbcbd09602db1d060ab50018a5c57769edc8df0c791
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The embedded JavaScript, although obfuscated, is designed to execute and likely download a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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
a16a491f3a350e168651c5015d603664febe397494ba4166b9fa17bc6a075513
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 112775 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely