PDF malware analysis — malicious · 0e366cf2da38c340

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB

MD5: 49702b90b8c3a1e1d24cf77a420633c9 SHA-1: 72140a617bb1fed525a52901d51bb6a820650da3 SHA-256: 0e366cf2da38c34068d455ee90324670b27d2180d9dab8b5e504c7f7bd166806

170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicating an attempt at initial access via a malicious attachment. The embedded script, though obfuscated, likely contains the payload for this exploit.

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
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.
Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One 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.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin` `64427c546c80f7f139be163579f7bef557f6cffb63c2d63f865a7326f337d421`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359	12168 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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