Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b88e68774ecf044…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB
MD5: fba2caa44d35f3f642eebc6671faf239 SHA-1: b4e930ebaa13e3634da81df254181ea36b69b6f1 SHA-256: 5b88e68774ecf044d1350638cb3ac4b7e53201061a35d1cc2c4a8371f8664fb8
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploits like CVE-2010-0188. The embedded script, which appears to be JavaScript, is likely responsible for triggering the exploit and downloading a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support the malicious nature of this file.

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
88fe6516e57f9864c353b3c090d0a1aba9ce2903d487c7dd80abd3f0e0080a9b
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x346 103752 bytes