Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ddfe2ec1aaf0981…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.3 KB
MD5: 126131ebcf5d97e69abf1ac3e40a283b SHA-1: b93aa7936c3ab45c23f2d17403bc4f149f68dd8a SHA-256: 0ddfe2ec1aaf09814f1ff2be25835268fd6d1d90cec975798d173986d56d540c
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious JavaScript payload. The embedded JavaScript is heavily obfuscated but appears to be responsible for fetching and running a second-stage exploit or malware.

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
93a62032125b91b82df559795eec9719b8b0b3b75c5c62b68b3baad9ae90eaa2
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113273 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely