Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0fee9ab7eea13fbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 2ca29ffb14b53860f9073ee1d43decfc SHA-1: 217dcec3a6372fcd24745b0df97e792aa8db812f SHA-256: 0fee9ab7eea13fbcdee783c8fa5e4fe251a54e61264b2040a56873652672b9dd
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms, to achieve code execution. The presence of embedded file and script payloads further indicates malicious intent. While the specific family is not identifiable, the exploit mechanism points to a targeted attack, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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
92f84baa50c4722888d82583a068ff9df46bd9f11f5eff26e150a83c7d5d652a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101450 bytes

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