Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1304e01e3cf09de3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB
MD5: f03308a06306a91c235f2471565e4db7 SHA-1: 0ff642eac0ee8db4e3f1ab907ce0ac96774256c8 SHA-256: 1304e01e3cf09de39b64981981c9cf764bdaacaf4d3ccd78a8bdec34457c9068
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains an embedded file and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a client vulnerability for execution. The presence of an embedded script payload further supports the malicious intent. No specific family could be identified.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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
662aa0f8590aca2a2af4b579e8ea4b8e97861c1c185757063fb39763f1cf9869
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51247 bytes