Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 33e93514e725d617…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.6 KB
MD5: b8297898d9296b5d6603c105b3e7c520 SHA-1: 213d086e38960c2413bf2beb713448fad26e379b SHA-256: 33e93514e725d61748deee305476fe98906fd57d13c9f68903be91f113392b7e
178 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains an embedded file and is flagged for exploiting CVE-2010-0188, indicating it likely attempts to execute arbitrary code upon opening. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0006.bin
23cb53beef64eab132af7d256672cb27ac8ad38b2ad394a712eb44e27c3aaa42
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x412 33689 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).