Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 027daf9896df4a2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: ad72b60c7ff68e0e78eccafbf9be49fc SHA-1: 4e8bc66d55c141e6db61ce53ade0632934bab31e SHA-256: 027daf9896df4a2b4b6694a2d35a279bffe09c12d762a1520e5d0da8623d4621
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF sample contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, which is often used to download and run additional malicious payloads. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

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 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 script payload in PDF stream low 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 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
f8b5e3a17a9116e19926548bcc0fb1576a83195ce9520904696dd76adac10a1d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101398 bytes