Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 681c56ac83534d88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.3 KB
MD5: f4eafa7e9c996505430fb79345e01c19 SHA-1: dd34f829ee286f2b0f83450d524fd46eac0ce9d0 SHA-256: 681c56ac83534d8882b34123b990b717de0e3e9bfa1f918a4936591605daec31
168 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, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded JavaScript attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, indicated by the heuristic firings for embedded script and exploit. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

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
2ae5a2736b1d9d21346d507d222aff41388c259fa234545cec792e859d1599d7
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 15928 bytes