Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e084ae953071767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB
MD5: 579fa0e05a605c248a1e5a1baef4ebb1 SHA-1: 78c5c3d97a36e1a6cc5fd9b5024a7013d1ef6e05 SHA-256: 5e084ae95307176710a3c9d4942113f607b23d8393be8509caebf594b4f06996
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains an embedded file and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a client-side vulnerability for code execution. The embedded script payload and ML classification further support its malicious nature. No specific family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
02e86874c82835b69c1c116f67674f36621d5ebdfbb59e35eb023082a276b140		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51029 bytes

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