Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a997b3b37bab6f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB
MD5: 5f7968c10386133ded7341f6aae70529 SHA-1: cd6e037172af0a81fef6e3d3cd9928dc725c5383 SHA-256: 0a997b3b37bab6f8243206f282a083f6c50b51315ef78f2939a5cd218028f748
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicated by the 'CVE_2010_0188' heuristic and the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' flag. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded file and script payload markers suggest it's a downloader or dropper for further malicious activity.

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 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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
0a4ddddf2b050b1cc131be63ea91bc83d5a42d7754c8ac34c98b8fafd6115163		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 80140 bytes

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