Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e6858a8288c562a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB
MD5: aaf822806c669b1dec5455832089336c SHA-1: b280d99ef44f4e2e936c04db45bf0f9b292c3d8e SHA-256: 5e6858a8288c562ad3437d4719faab4f894746f6482ec80dfc8fcd4713b9bb46
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that leverages the XFA form feature to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, as indicated by the 'EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV' heuristic detecting a JavaScript exploit. The embedded script, although obfuscated, contains JavaScript code that likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detections strongly indicate malicious intent.

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
  • 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.
  • 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_pdf_script_00000238.bin
fe22d37eb398cbe2d5763bf75bb9dfac6aa6e880ed2f8a0c7686311485e06fd6		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113389 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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