Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eb2133a6c86bce8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB
MD5: 41becdc5358dbcf9227b2ee5c810679f SHA-1: 70d5817bba15741d309b8c646368ff6e39e3871a SHA-256: 6eb2133a6c86bce8b61270a038b83182f457b732277c905f8ce4f8c728bd8742
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, a known vulnerability for client-side execution. The exploit triggers the execution of obfuscated JavaScript, which is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' and 'Js.Exploit.HTML-27' further confirms the malicious nature of the file and its embedded script.

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
f638148bf2fb7dcf9419f37427b2a54fb519ec11d1090de25d8cdbe932fa2c00
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113399 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely