Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1278b6a1cfb3bdd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: 5b438ba56d37a4a5fec66e2f6a74cf23 SHA-1: 8c6fb16e743a335e0e072cf8242e58426a30503a SHA-256: 1278b6a1cfb3bdd0618500da287b92bb397544d5a3d5e9cefd9d19cd8e5c3a91
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. This exploit likely allows for the execution of arbitrary code, potentially to download and run a secondary payload. No specific malware family could be identified.

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
f030f077a9c8a143e50f76b2c91b414226097abe84bc7f003f4e0aee50f1f12f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101371 bytes