Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6df118177d428adf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 6dbd50a6ebfaa47aac1ec5144458dc90 SHA-1: a78d3ae343bd18e0336aacc8f7f5bcdad5eacc1e SHA-256: 6df118177d428adf0a591ba14bc170bc642e7551714b69e0b5c76764f83b0a63
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded script, written in JavaScript, is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact medium 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.
  • 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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_00000364.bin
2b48e34da2a06d41fa4b32f3606e49b397e9bb40cd7de9f196547e0fbe71cbef
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x364 12346 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 33 long hex-escaped blob(s).