Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d3d9f5be4276eb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB
MD5: 95af0cf067232f5f44995008815b5019 SHA-1: dbf662408295b82f63ded4d1516612ad252e0954 SHA-256: 0d3d9f5be4276eb20e7deaf2ab17ea8c60a2f77662ebcd108ebc0ecaa8d305dc
216 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, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution, which is typically used to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script markers further supports the exploit's functionality.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93
  • 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
2ae66103211b97dd72b20e57daca2e3db6dc98d696219fdd0e4d353798986184		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 50315 bytes

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