Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 054fe157ea794702…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 9c21fb5df6e536488aa65c316f5145db SHA-1: fe1f95ca88892b237c5dbc698bd630124a6a2e7d SHA-256: 054fe157ea7947022f32d57d2b35992918e78ca18275079495029a92056cdc9c
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded XFA (XML Forms Architecture) content, which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188 to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded script payload, likely JavaScript given the XFA context, is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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
2931f6b6a409c5bea5036a514ef757e821b0a7349665e52fc0b0775c922fb06f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101423 bytes