Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c1b879363abc91e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB
MD5: eacbd4db107440fb14b41c13741d6c5a SHA-1: a799b3e57ac4df80e0e3a52f41b21c2ca77b991b SHA-256: 0c1b879363abc91efcfa67b55e97fb37b512378031e4e8adacbb8d18ae1509e5
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains embedded XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. The embedded script, although heavily obfuscated, likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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
b12d1f3fd202ca4abb03d2bf663e6c23c695c8f7317c41868595c8409fb93dd4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 79935 bytes