Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 752a26ba38ca8401…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: 31c2a76d85f2e540b56b7f22bc62fde2 SHA-1: a0076abb97d48250fc4478b0a2d4f3bd8c6acb22 SHA-256: 752a26ba38ca8401502a33c393bcff89e21064d19713566b48f47f29e9965706
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded script, though obfuscated, likely contains logic to download and run a secondary payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

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
5b2c0f78abad956dfec18a4ef0feebfe7a4d91bcc1fc569809a022b83e71a175
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12185 bytes