Pdf.Dropper.Agent-5748275-0 — PDF malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a0d258e00722b81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB
MD5: 5cd14ce9b5280cdcebc7c1e79615b4ec SHA-1: 97914a3b01b6869cc73f836f3aacbd98fde0c398 SHA-256: 6a0d258e00722b8190024bf22e1a020b71996589f66185e21d5d1a56ab10bc03
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Pdf.Dropper.Agent-5748275-0 · confidence 95%

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the critical CVE-2010-0188 heuristic, indicating an exploit for Adobe Reader. The ML classifier also strongly flags it as malicious. The embedded file suggests it acts as a dropper for a secondary payload, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-5748275-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-5748275-0
  • 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
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.4/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
54db4c14cd10f663d351278f9cc0105d1315178f58de0d149c28a5c852e9fd91		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13400 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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