Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14c2e5464481a374…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.2 KB
MD5: d1e4984d10c7c85f8b285c576917c8b6 SHA-1: d6cd192365943149655911272a34f6a9b219f49c SHA-256: 14c2e5464481a374594a3f59ea957972c80a4f8e020a74376590f6a3ba8bd7ad
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded XFA script contains obfuscated JavaScript, which is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

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_00000346.bin
80a684751c36e1421b8a200d4cc08134aa8e9ed9c925f175c3894b2ed9040542
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x346 103935 bytes