PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1502af0a4e14ce5e

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: hXr (via va)

MD5: f0bcc5953322e9f737922303ba41ad83 SHA-1: d01a010db4e1e44aab8817c29319aa6f206e30e2 SHA-256: 1502af0a4e14ce5eef9d155b1b07693332c19fba5dc5e213788fa0b2ed0e8a67

118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF sample contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a client-side vulnerability upon opening. The embedded file and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, suggesting it acts as a dropper for further malicious activity.

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.
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.
Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
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/xci/1.0/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.4/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0041.bin` `fd7b3eb82f801f2991728c4b19e244589d0d8dbeaeab3f0efe8fb4a7c74cf88e`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9922 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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