Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f30b53690f5070e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.2 KB
MD5: 474e59108cd1069aeed47bf6138db845 SHA-1: ef1b9dba1bfd559103d17c0940d3641b74644110 SHA-256: 0f30b53690f5070e3e38cd2d86e45c81347597d691537889717deae17a199ece
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a payload, likely downloaded or embedded within the document. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the presence of an embedded file further supports this. No specific family could be identified.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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
8006bd2f3e2bf3e2c7e7a866f55e0b8e4367773a7dc243d41ffeeb813b299ffd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 63930 bytes

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