Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fe6c1adbbe297e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB
MD5: 12033e33f28eb482ce3bfa128c733eb1 SHA-1: 035fd8118104d3754d5b9cbfa23f70f91c8ec596 SHA-256: 0fe6c1adbbe297e0af6b37fd264fbadf9da81c3cd62f3ea43a9e7e1f27bd991d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, which is often used to download and run additional malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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
f1f4f7f58fb55368338d07896df124f6201836f0cf73066d4263d040c7d4ea02		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51270 bytes

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