Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78aedffb38fa3710…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB
MD5: 91bbe2d13da995922720aee3e0f2cb8a SHA-1: f47f618955783d0afd97ce10962c8feb528671fc SHA-256: 78aedffb38fa37104e2751d9fe1cd7a404b24ef6fe5c6131fe047f6ddd558f12
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The script is heavily obfuscated but appears to be designed to download and execute a secondary 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://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_pdf_script_00000288.bin
1c5cef433ef0a7b47e44b2d550884ffdc2e467fc2d926cb2a24556cd8b03c39a		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x288 81045 bytes

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