Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a0170e35f144301…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB
MD5: af835de8d866216926c766c7efe951cd SHA-1: a00f75ac67587d0db033f04eee1f5ce2a2f8aa15 SHA-256: 6a0170e35f1443014932efd6d389f51844b7f07d6e3156efef699b753a98c7db
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader's XFA processing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The exploit likely serves to download and execute a secondary payload, though the specific payload and its origin are not detailed in the provided evidence.

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
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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_file_obj0008.bin
d10821ea52cea8646dc37e025d2c57ce1f57413cde9e94302754d6f3cb5fa013		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51225 bytes

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