Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a0123cf560140ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB
MD5: 2f4b852a2f305d7c6731ecbcbc83c8e0 SHA-1: 827ffe06c446fcd043c00ac02489252c8fef4279 SHA-256: 0a0123cf560140ac463d327bf7c7d77fb8b34404e8f5c422a6925cb1ce58e937
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains an XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. An embedded JavaScript payload is present, which is likely responsible for executing the malicious actions. The script's obfuscated nature and the exploit's presence strongly indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_0000034e.bin
d38785870b6e9d69b8036d962fda2e67a474767fd946e5f86224b885919bd092
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34E 74422 bytes