MALICIOUS
238
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059.007 JavaScript
This PDF document exploits CVE-2010-2883, a known Adobe Reader vulnerability, to execute embedded JavaScript. The JavaScript code appears to be heavily obfuscated and aims to recover and execute a secondary stage payload. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9536
Heuristics 9
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Adobe Reader CoolType SING font exploit — CVE-2010-2883 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_2883PDF embeds a TrueType/OpenType font with an actual SING table and pairs it with JavaScript heap-spray shellcode. This matches the public Adobe Reader CoolType SING exploit shape for CVE-2010-2883.
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PDF JavaScript exploit cluster critical PDF_JS_EXPLOIT_CLUSTERPDF combines an executable JavaScript/action surface with exploit staging indicators such as eval/unescape/fromCharCode, XFA script content, or a related CVE pattern. Benign form JavaScript remains low-severity, but this correlated cluster is high-confidence malicious behavior.
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Generic recovered JavaScript exploit stage high PDF_GENERIC_STAGE_RECOVERYBounded static stage recovery exposed hidden JavaScript through generic transforms such as null-byte collapse, percent decoding, marker replacement, arithmetic character codes, fromCharCode, numeric arrays, numeric-array minus-key decoders, alphabet-index arrays, /Producer half-difference metadata arrays, hex literals, marker-stripped Base64 literals, custom 6-bit XOR table decoders, or repeated-marker hex carriers. This rule is emitted only when the recovered stage contains exploit-like Acrobat JavaScript or shellcode markers.
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ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEXHex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
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JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPTPDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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Embedded JS stream low PDF_JSPDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/2.6/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.1/
Extracted artifacts 8
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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javascript_obj0029_000.jsc8ee67a1f5abb9bd16f3574005cc743c2aa8d412d19f590327b78f1a993aebfa |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 29 at offset 0x80E27 | 14983 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).
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javascript_obj0038_001.js2c0b66ec50073178ddc3de2aaf0627ef83819a8f71c118ff3b075b4bd82749fe |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 38 at offset 0x1D44 | 1242 bytes |
javascript_obj0039_002.jsd8bbcc5984e6bec8996e18881fad0486ff520c9b9f03ee0fb9694ddfc412340d |
pdf-javascript-stream | PDF /JS object 39 at offset 0x2316 | 1572 bytes |
stream_004_off00000cd0.bin69e17a0038b9273e6d005ef52313a832cb41b9cf9713d6134d0cf9f2e59298a7 |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xCD0 | 434 bytes |
generic_stage_recovery_000.js832e4c04d842cd4cc87cc71bf52893e6e57c5437e97931dcd9f1ba72b5d9f055 |
deobfuscated-js | generic stage recovery marker-MM-to-%u from combined JavaScript objects at offset 0x80E27 | 17479 bytes |
generic_stage_recovery_001.js588eae6b17c50e71fc1e7a0bf8db4733bc82f08b2ba8ac2770185349374f9435 |
deobfuscated-js | generic stage recovery marker-MM-to-%u from combined JavaScript objects at offset 0x80E27 | 10357 bytes |
font_00_sfnt_off00001313.binfc85f44193ccd402987935418c4f5fdf6802c96450b789e7fce04f9791933021 |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1313 | 7965 bytes |
font_01_sfnt_off00001ac5.bin1e827515a464087cdace63e3578c118b45a657ed40cdbb9de7eead35c9b593ba |
pdf-font-stream | PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AC5 | 7965 bytes |
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