Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7708e2123040f9ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB
MD5: 2fa4296f0d97096c66765c665755f738 SHA-1: ac63e6bd52dab93425159f653f194261d8303f45 SHA-256: 7708e2123040f9ae36566de4edf42453b859e27fbbee8a9fdc518f3a7cd5c5e0
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The XFA form includes a JavaScript payload that is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage malicious file, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93' ClamAV detection and the embedded file artifact. The ML classifier strongly flags this as malicious.

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.Dropped-93 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93
  • 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
9a857fdf95e369c9e3b299f58b9ac0541ed587d13206f9c07fad71dd06b1237e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 50409 bytes

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