Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a663ee9734b7eda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB
MD5: 77fb8f99e27427f1ce3149c0da2b121c SHA-1: 62cd72d0e788b88eb67ee7de80e4b2a1375505f6 SHA-256: 0a663ee9734b7edaf0452e2528422075456720ba8a320cd4f8d35aa9c99c8629
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and exhibits characteristics of an exploit. Specifically, it triggers the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, which is known to be used for client-side exploitation. The PDF also contains embedded script payloads and embedded files, suggesting it's designed to deliver and execute further malicious content.

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
db4fca514e7783f653e00d5c64764ca20f3fed062555f70cfd80c503d30deb92		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101081 bytes

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