Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 156ab5738ecf260e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB
MD5: cd88c1ef009ebdeab8bd8b5c8ecf6cec SHA-1: 34cb9ddc9e859267e88f1ab761d9991e94315f58 SHA-256: 156ab5738ecf260e73840e2ed3990163f61e5c82022da17c4c6816fe02cf7b9d
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to be used for client-side execution. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded script, though obfuscated, likely attempts to download and execute a secondary payload, aligning with common exploitation techniques.

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
50c14c00397a7f0464d5b96e2661c489fbaa645997ea6d4ca69fa3cdbaa13b78
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101702 bytes