Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d734f25245a3a26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: 4cdfc684eeb839624fb4662d93dd9466 SHA-1: 5f76059e62c68bb0e0d42872e982a6dda660e53e SHA-256: 5d734f25245a3a265bc4ca3d1b1cc06bcefe439f45a282796a6dd3ff53323c22
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains embedded JavaScript within an XFA form, which is known to be exploitable via CVE-2010-0188. The embedded script attempts to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic and ClamAV detection. The script's functionality is to download and execute a secondary payload from the embedded URL.

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_00000359.bin
c278d260f600fb173962b8068d0eb874059f8453338eb61c88b94f1fba1c696f
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12185 bytes