MALICIOUS
186
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059.007 JavaScript
The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 8
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Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188PDF 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.
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36962
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Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDEDPDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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String.fromCharCode low PDF_FROMCHARCODEString.fromCharCode found — used to construct payload strings dynamically. Common in benign JavaScript libraries for codepoint manipulation, so this alone is informational; weaponised use is also caught by the dedicated fromCharCode-stage and exploit-shape rules. (matched inside decoded stream)
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AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTONPDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
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Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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.
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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-locale-set/2.1/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.2/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
Extracted artifacts 6
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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embedded_file_obj0041.binc06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x26DB | 85 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0042.bindda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0x278D | 1029 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0043.bin8f947a64ada0b5de651da607fea1f421235bb8b344851290b70d0c7516b910ef |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 43 at offset 0x29A6 | 1655 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).
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embedded_file_obj0044.bin3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x2D64 | 144 bytes |
embedded_file_obj0045.bin10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x2E10 | 77 bytes |
xfa_metadata_stage_000.js4a7e0403ed392ad3241ae2457e555b77a0db7ce2becd8a45852a009150f90bb7 |
deobfuscated-js | XFA /keywords base-29 decoded JavaScript (raw) at offset 0xDEB | 2181 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 5 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).
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