Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1556228ae18862fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB
MD5: af3f6468dc7e475c80df5ec67e5bb46b SHA-1: a68ae7dc4fd173cef970b8c9dadd2aa3146411a3 SHA-256: 1556228ae18862fa3e24088010ead2cd80a8769e9f309c3786e27e9370550856
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, exploiting CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded JavaScript further supports the execution of malicious actions within the PDF context.

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
831ffd6bd3a7e3229cb9ca5a5e243447896683feefb62d29938e7104d52582b6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 88760 bytes