PDF malware analysis — malicious · 008be743e7fa7b3c

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB

MD5: 92b2caf1623d1e7a68f516d0b181e419 SHA-1: ddfd19f05961f97997af334a0be11d9f57cd5137 SHA-256: 008be743e7fa7b3c2a9d15f23bfd87a75e2e7ee11b4f44fe69627c79e223173a

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 sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The critical heuristic indicates that the decoded XFA payload was matched, suggesting the exploit attempts to execute arbitrary code. The presence of embedded file and script payload heuristics further supports the likelihood of a secondary stage download and execution. The embedded URLs are likely related to the XFA form structure but could potentially be used for command and control or payload delivery.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `79db3633ead7a1839866d7abe7734a957a28ff608fce9294cf2db7f61c3b26bf`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	101340 bytes

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