Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 144517f286ae05c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB
MD5: eecc598d47ddfc2da3005f15ac7b558a SHA-1: cbe7bfac486f396eee0e8654c732de41b360f2ba SHA-256: 144517f286ae05c532bab24f33eafd1c58b4671277f6c03f1f80e86b13709a88
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded JavaScript script, although obfuscated, is designed to execute arbitrary code. The script attempts to reconstruct a string from a character set, which is a common technique for downloading and executing secondary payloads.

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://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_00000286.bin
5a4cac1b5f06548bdc1bf540615df4b74b57eac82a6bdd2134c710d36374dc03
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x286 76952 bytes