Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 068a8b90ac813b60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: f45fdb9eebf3c145be91dff00456c51d SHA-1: ba49ae04e9d1a5e04145c4e7eb82ed286a145f82 SHA-256: 068a8b90ac813b6079491326811b9d90fa21f5401787b46632e022f12b72eb65
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF sample contains critical heuristic firings indicating the exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, as confirmed by ClamAV detection and ML classification. An embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', was also extracted, suggesting it is the payload delivered by the exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
3a0f1e7b3c08e3648674285c149235096cfbf33783972e119fe55898e292308c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13473 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).