Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e63b449e3e3f890…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.7 KB
MD5: 007037b7c323d5484edd5647335b79ae SHA-1: 0453dfaea8c7cb0a597c01e9e9ce47c6f270ad58 SHA-256: 0e63b449e3e3f89040c4c1568ef2f536188b2a5122dfe84f8750e7f1e2e58a2e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' ClamAV detection and the ML classifier flagging the PDF as malicious. The embedded file and script payload markers further support this conclusion.

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.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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
092790b145052c8f3634aa4e874a8799730be11f1c648c2a2090670416ace452		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51191 bytes

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