Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a7977bc4239c0c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.1 KB
MD5: 3a275d1d45c421c3af47a5170bf35045 SHA-1: 950431cbef8ec24f1801e5638087b570eb93731d SHA-256: 6a7977bc4239c0c324acaa8892fdffcf75fa1db1546c7531d985c7062c8eb490
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to deliver malicious payloads. An embedded JavaScript payload was extracted and detected by ClamAV as Js.Exploit.HTML-27. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code, likely for further malicious actions.

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://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_pdf_script_00000238.bin
7b33facb24f04d60f670716d7d5e4ab2cdd98fbc0857f4f9dffe0df83b2a42d7		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113025 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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