Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85099aff51bda39b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: 1426a1a814f86883ddb1fac29bc1c891 SHA-1: 10ca787146cf7de54be24321ec4c139c7320c935 SHA-256: 85099aff51bda39b668dbeec5ce79fb7efc6e173a094b97f466e53b6ec2e6af5
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, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. The embedded JavaScript, though obfuscated, likely contains code to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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
d701688e468d994c4653ba9c219b48e91444bc425fbe67979d0ddae3c1ad2669
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12233 bytes