Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b8a428c8b7ccb30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB
MD5: 8a75c3861e0677d7219d0b850a7e184c SHA-1: 549f66680b10a1810e462d6b30dde549837eca8f SHA-256: 0b8a428c8b7ccb309323a01743798ee86a714fb4d62e5aa2ddfdd6dfa7267137
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF document exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded file and XFA structure suggest the document is designed to deliver an exploit, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
4039e9c998334ff031d82f5ca110045c516b3c5ea8785535b9ad33d41166a47b		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x4F 13560 bytes

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