Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 006ee445cb2c5424…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB
MD5: 04affb1258ff3e887aa014ca7eda4ddb SHA-1: 0f2406ed2d99219981262de4d87a4950865c3e0c SHA-256: 006ee445cb2c5424bb805b117105884571b1bfe89c023e406c5ac5788c3b3864
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Clickjacking T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The PDF file contains embedded content and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit. This indicates the document is designed to leverage this vulnerability to execute a payload, likely for further system compromise. No document body text was available for analysis, but the XFA form structure and embedded file strongly suggest a malicious exploit delivery mechanism.

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.
  • 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
7461c8440d90028c354198c773d60ec723bc1912489fbdb42df36c073805863a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 88912 bytes

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