PDF malware analysis — malicious · 7d6bdb7897e8e936

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.2 KB

MD5: 6fc708d9dd36e722ba4d3f14bb8d6d89 SHA-1: df290dffa79fcad6671e1e056a4be94bfefbe61e SHA-256: 7d6bdb7897e8e9361622ee90e61989d644e29e0615271853411fc755c9b5233a

168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical alert for CVE-2010-0188, which is an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. An embedded JavaScript script was found, which is likely responsible for executing the exploit payload. The script's content is heavily obfuscated and truncated, preventing a detailed analysis of its specific actions, but its presence in conjunction with the CVE points to an exploitation attempt.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin` `a4e17a1a2b91e2f5fe0224e47ca96d0d2bb3e8c25af8a4f23c8cfbc66992f1ac`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359	15885 bytes

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