Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f503651491d6c6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB
MD5: 16f1ada2d60b46cdd78dba3c2f869d1d SHA-1: d9424150d07682d0c3efbaa6c348901259f5d49a SHA-256: 6f503651491d6c6a3966e6ad21b28b34eab61060084e08658b14c73394a88699
168 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 the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded JavaScript is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristic firings and the nature of the exploit indicate that it is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The benign URLs present are likely decoys or standard XFA schema references.

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://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_0000023c.bin
bcef177c7e919ab0acb872177da82b3766b365d05fbb698d31cc98dc1d48026c
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 91530 bytes