Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cbc24a609d9fd0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB
MD5: 89e83d270dbadd8f4f36dfc4885db7a2 SHA-1: f186dd16f638cf7a3a968fbc193ed0825c5dbf01 SHA-256: 6cbc24a609d9fd0f99a97381a3662c5a596396f4de04cd445b85b427ccbe4ac1
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that contains embedded JavaScript, which is obfuscated and likely intended to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000346.bin
ab1c7a977d2eec19b7946ecc5d4376d68647e435e05e3839a8f0adf7c3f36736
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x346 103828 bytes