Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71b2aa1e5ca5aaa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB
MD5: e472423bfc4a4df8d834efc8d479c509 SHA-1: 5c7f5be8def4a07619551a4ff813b198d5735885 SHA-256: 71b2aa1e5ca5aaa6a919b05786b9977a7ff8f8b8ffb341b493c6916f50780ced
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. An embedded JavaScript payload within the XFA form is triggered, which is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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_00000346.bin
c9ff7ecec0018a12302f644e293311e074ac076e224d08f54bf15331930375c6
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x346 103710 bytes