Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 672d2be1d587bb13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: f70902b99036484f5e7cc9c0d4f9a1d8 SHA-1: 48b7c2fda5ed75b28278d9a70d889cf6ac11c0d5 SHA-256: 672d2be1d587bb1398f7e0aad2c20c4fdbfbc92c01b3e0fa5fc9817640d37fbc
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded JavaScript attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the heuristic firings and the structure of the embedded script. The script's content is heavily obfuscated, but its intent to execute arbitrary code is clear.

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
  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
6496094f142563f33c7b2f9efc9fb682126320d4bea232eaf7412a278de8ae61
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12322 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).