Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f0d86a29f4f4ec1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: 5566655d9d5ca9126859c9c8d2ce30ca SHA-1: b86af2f8242d79461061699039246dcf02d06f43 SHA-256: 6f0d86a29f4f4ec1c0246e5f89a4ddc5b94157a43bb081681650f114c9d22501
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. Static analysis detected an embedded XFA form and a script payload. The embedded JavaScript, though heavily obfuscated, is characteristic of exploit delivery mechanisms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm its malicious nature.

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
  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info 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.
  • 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_00000359.bin
d3fa66fecac860f5411fedcd1b39ccb3f4dc0eac4a8b40f7605b6b46ddbf0aff
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12200 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).