Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04f0c1ec2a883108…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: 4c1585da17e7ae174bfa8ded3b55b77c SHA-1: 617175003cb3d9406b0a1dfae3c65da13802fa1a SHA-256: 04f0c1ec2a88310890301a1297a2967a4ceba7068f4b181742188888eb7237e3
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, which is often used to download and run a secondary malicious payload. While the document body and embedded scripts were not fully analyzed, the critical heuristic firing strongly indicates exploitation for client execution.

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
9d49aee43117de7b3360b37bd3f16272f30b0d964c83e099a7ab19cd13587936		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101351 bytes

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