PDF malware analysis — malicious · 6a12bbe7d81670fa

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB

MD5: 61bca38a5d857500433dc6b436e8e105 SHA-1: 15c64470626df4e823f6ea51490c8a49ac1735c9 SHA-256: 6a12bbe7d81670fa80eeb69677781ade6d24d817c9101fe38b950f54d9999392

258 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF images. The exploit targets XFA scripts, which are identified as JavaScript, to execute a payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin' is highly suspicious and likely contains the second-stage malware dropped by the exploit.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

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.
XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
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.
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/xfa-template/2.5/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `80e697af2231a4b97aba62b507335fbef6eb7db804952ee775a539841d67c02f`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	70094 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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