Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fb1d96932aeae01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB
MD5: 8b112765e79a8f583c208b2f739b65e8 SHA-1: 8c17d6c27709d1961347e47cdfda0674a62f039a SHA-256: 5fb1d96932aeae011fe39b8f08de1a97bcee29af32f422c5339edd3d3da09322
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is likely intended to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for client-side code execution, enabling the download and execution of further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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_0000034e.bin
65329484cdb52f82a6f9d8269ff1fa0dc2880a9a3e90b4d3338d794c5b51ed86
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34E 74422 bytes