Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a3e8796379042eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB
MD5: f1cc0b86deafd561acdba1aeebfa080c SHA-1: a0f906c07959ffcdc0834016cb175a70ae6222b5 SHA-256: 6a3e8796379042ebbfbc854bd5e14493a4d060d476cba6c5e7c75564cd3ead8c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. The heuristic firings indicate an embedded exploit payload within the XFA structure. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' further confirms its malicious nature. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing, with the PDF acting as an attachment designed to exploit the user's reader.

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
47a73a99882c6a3d9a909cf5d5b1393a9151d5f5a12e7afb104bc2344f3e9388		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51293 bytes

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