Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6046740777fda4db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.2 KB
MD5: a196e5dab2f78a7f0f7e1484b263a522 SHA-1: d37a1a029b210a288d06d309a85b29d414577dae SHA-256: 6046740777fda4db38d1e510585a7b23fb1013d1f8598e7d5443346749619b4d
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript that is designed to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is used to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded script is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the exploit and the ML classifier 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_00000359.bin
e35ddbb3683e190432099263447885dc0d736fea41c26d979e6f82118961e42e
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 15901 bytes