Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0060fdcc80231323…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.7 KB
MD5: e8bcedd8b92d3c7e55d4a8da2e972679 SHA-1: 73fb010916765507e71ca22cab05e39b97270f48 SHA-256: 0060fdcc802313236e0a841c4bdcac92f39476b7eb349ee656467bbc46a77124
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, specifically targeting XFA forms. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary malicious payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic and the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' ClamAV detection. The embedded URLs, while mostly benign or unknown, are part of the document's structure that facilitates the exploit.

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.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium 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 file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • 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_file_obj0008.bin
b43c43c4d0402325c5708cc51195a066e4f1ae449c9935aecca81c2d7a0011fa		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 124890 bytes

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