Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11b47190c48737b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.4 KB
MD5: 8d8cbf44a957c87e5ecd563bec07d951 SHA-1: 0e172b625f5e9b0f1261ff04cba7aa9005317c3a SHA-256: 11b47190c48737b915cd71b8376da6a1e44ea208f8e4ad66f13a632b739c1212
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms, to execute arbitrary code. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is indicative of a dropper mechanism designed to download and execute a second-stage malicious file. The benign URLs present are likely unrelated to the exploit itself.

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
5c9d7dd1f72c6da0d06c4421b191943c75b0bdb41c5e8be9c9e6bf0a21cb378a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 64165 bytes

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