Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1299c4d0f5ed3a29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB
MD5: ec2b6f123ee3f42a04974a5849280377 SHA-1: 6e0d2d0531b6594f448764efe96418abb12082e8 SHA-256: 1299c4d0f5ed3a2969aa63751691aec376ca8bb12a587c754c2069c3948f4386
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, which is often used to download and run additional malicious payloads. The presence of embedded script content further supports this, indicating an attempt to perform malicious actions within the user's environment.

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
770b1ca34f68b4a27b308829a974d6ddbebfb331d0ad5aae07599bcc86e07d48		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 79549 bytes

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