Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64eddfa1cbeb83b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: 9e49890a6749c729acac19fc3891cb7d SHA-1: e6111e7a708c6f58206d3c4b9477c68c29cf1bfd SHA-256: 64eddfa1cbeb83b0a045ec0711455a7fe49a7867ffc757e9ff55b7351ced52ba
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component to execute arbitrary code. An embedded XFA form and script payload were detected, indicating the exploit attempts to download and run a secondary malicious component. The ML classifier and ClamAV detections strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000374.bin
e4634133e47edbfa74a011d422f9a4afdda9165eb6537f5834fd869355864dac
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x374 12240 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36756
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely