Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00db451440f82e74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.5 KB
MD5: 93a83bb81f8eb6b10e02bf63f97caf19 SHA-1: 8e63f09d4d776c2313f4cdc791de205a57dac80a SHA-256: 00db451440f82e74808cffb0f95536e176dc033aa26f0cc660b7214d7cb6f2f4
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicating the file's purpose is to deliver a malicious payload to the user's system.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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/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
5038508deaaccaff30266dcee1e9366e1c40f5982e1ca7a885db7e44145d2ee5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13581 bytes