Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0075c5e2bae4586a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 7c77f86fd5cd75bfe014279523f75327 SHA-1: 2bfdf78a748bb2f6f5b5861bb192504b0d9f19a3 SHA-256: 0075c5e2bae4586afcd132f37635c6ec115a10ce668a4df108b4b963bd772f38
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Embedded Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The file is a PDF that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, which targets Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms containing TIFF images. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' ClamAV detection and the presence of an embedded file. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this document.

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 XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
  • 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
  • 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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.4/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
b0267735360803c155e9889331e0bbfd50adb159e64a2f975d2fad75a81e264b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13415 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).