Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 60e6b35da3074081…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB
MD5: d32957dc66471309d9f792cca47c2631 SHA-1: 1658e9ea889d2e25cd46854450c15a76a82694c9 SHA-256: 60e6b35da3074081eb9c4b80af929a409b3e3e8e58fbdda72748c324dfde2d1b
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, leading to the execution of a JavaScript payload. This payload is detected by ClamAV as 'Js.Exploit.HTML-27', indicating it likely downloads and executes further malicious content. The primary attack vector is exploitation for client execution via a vulnerable PDF reader.

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
60078446af03e3e05517036fa4ded90583d2ace82bd6f5994b942176f6253bc7
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113399 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely