Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72d4eeba11650dfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB
MD5: 3b49a1d8a83153d4a876cd7730957914 SHA-1: aa02ddd7edcc0fe613b301878ad5eaced1965fcc SHA-256: 72d4eeba11650dfb5e6f6f8a045d8fb9804089974f1a7b64325eafd1a0e8424b
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is malicious and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. The exploit is designed to execute a payload, as indicated by the critical heuristic firings and ClamAV detection. The embedded file and script markers further support the exploitation of this vulnerability for client execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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_file_obj0008.bin
0dae122d2930557550ef6420e347d4518d1218ae9c2585bf04f0e3f69b94dfaf		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 43906 bytes

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