Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69cdcd351586f5e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 5e68c19460764d7b24c9b9e33b539911 SHA-1: 37c279688f34b027266b867d913441135be9befd SHA-256: 69cdcd351586f5e91f6243ef09eee1a37887c1588c828c355475c71c63049967
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded JavaScript, when deobfuscated, likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detections further confirm the malicious nature of the file, indicating it's a known exploit.

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
ce17b2fe481c6920467b512db455d14a3ecfc4786c9560a30ad9c87c137cb346
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x374 12336 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36756
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely