Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67f0346ab2b307cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.0 KB
MD5: 752dcddd7800ee2ed2e40a28ce0222c6 SHA-1: 788f4900baf2f896e3f99ffaae3f5c829e603a67 SHA-256: 67f0346ab2b307cf1dc8ad37a2c29e9e41a7fbc31050939dfabf6225a39df6f3
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. The exploit embeds and executes a JavaScript payload. ClamAV detections confirm the malicious nature of the PDF and the extracted JavaScript artifact. The script itself is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
ae8f1bc2446fdf8764bf67d0192117d22ad3b8f0840a724336ff4bed352b3c53
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 112899 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely