Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 701dba8f051dc99b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: fa1f922131379a4cced450500879f4f2 SHA-1: 1857c93f96297647190e37bb1139aef50d3b0345 SHA-256: 701dba8f051dc99b09a22602bb7fd446159518899aaa78ef8117a0cc0fa72b77
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript within an XFA form, which is designed to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is intended to achieve client-side execution of a malicious payload. The embedded script, while heavily obfuscated, indicates an attempt to download and execute further stages.

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_00000359.bin
fe39ec2360c6dc581131c76b48402e6bae37123d2fb402ebb050c7e39b008cb7
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12207 bytes