Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ee144e21a023f6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: 466b5d7ebe6982079ece9321f47e195b SHA-1: 57a20ee93c96a7f3b0b0e8a589c88d59f9751499 SHA-256: 7ee144e21a023f6de33cd507195aa767a80e3c9a5b9d4ef86b7a8aed865560db
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded XFA content and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. While the embedded script is heavily obfuscated, the primary attack vector is the exploitation of the known Adobe Reader vulnerability.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
38e8da6b1aafbe5c435809f9dbd8b1344591fd4b28a6a2df2d781beeed6cea55
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12176 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).