Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 122ee7a2bba57a6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 32f5d02691a4aabedbbe8c123b6fabb2 SHA-1: b90223745c0509838d0846183db94f514372b2e6 SHA-256: 122ee7a2bba57a6cd6eff4475561830ae408c2a4880e20c9b35aa85889934ef5
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. The exploit appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent.

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
96a453220ed4e8753961bbb279a011501ca55ac1492618bbc76b34f12828df41
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101496 bytes