Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18f02eb60dc57df7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: 12abdc9156cc3e6d8541b6908385a680 SHA-1: 0b07482f63a89d578be789d48535c5d164067b0f SHA-256: 18f02eb60dc57df74f562c8547396261d6aa9ee4ad5a2d899cb275ce3904a97f
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded XFA content that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a payload, likely a second-stage downloader or malware. The embedded JavaScript, though obfuscated, is part of the exploit chain. The benign URL found is not considered an IOC.

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_00000384.bin
2add2baeab3915ed19308f05cde61c163a83edce18eff6f910cf88fc2f5d2985
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x384 12276 bytes