Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c330aae06853a37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB
MD5: 07ee3b8df6889973cf2d17cd92c1fe78 SHA-1: 1d37d526b7735788edc2fd5702b99374aa86066b SHA-256: 6c330aae06853a37f3a4ad4d0e50f19b0500c8b736ed87bf7de1238cb37a008e
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded JavaScript, though obfuscated, is designed to execute a payload. ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 and an extracted artifact as Js.Exploit.HTML-27. The primary attack vector is exploitation for client execution via a PDF vulnerability.

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
8f2abe6c923043404ba6e7856c8f18abb5b011cf6874cb330afe5c7649b555be
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113399 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely