Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07fd300ef607ea89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB
MD5: 04f59809634ad1edaa4bbaa53bf13a6c SHA-1: d74d627dbecb6c9bfd13273175ff3805305c0c19 SHA-256: 07fd300ef607ea895f936cefb87b01e1fadec2ad133c93e6f29a712dcc47b245
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and exhibits characteristics of exploiting CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded script payload suggests an attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload, which is a common technique for delivering malware.

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
d0692e57167e30952958323d98b4e320270c36e6e29ba5977cbcf86599ba096c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101505 bytes