Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85360a225b5e2184…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.0 KB
MD5: 756989d5bc9b7841a75c461d6c7b0559 SHA-1: 41a2f4d9d66d55142e973b40117f1761b7de133d SHA-256: 85360a225b5e2184c3b91058ade4f315bf46e81252bed0392ed4bc5214989d4b
228 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains embedded XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data, which is known to be a vector for exploits. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability (CVE-2010-0188) related to XFA image exploitation. Furthermore, an embedded JavaScript payload was detected and flagged by ClamAV. This JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'Js.Exploit.HTML-27' detection on an extracted artifact.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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_00000238.bin
36e9351e99da4bad09c8cd9b8143a8859de91b9d54d9bff0332d5dea34f84d8e		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 114009 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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