Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15e72641f84df80d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.9 KB
MD5: 6f5870bb66bedcc7aaf04c7ee8b72351 SHA-1: a0108c5c6c4c5cb383dfd11ca4b8a009c327a7f0 SHA-256: 15e72641f84df80d283deb8d9a5659d26a9c28f0adcbca34a21a200055c8be21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it is designed to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. The presence of an embedded file and XFA form further supports this conclusion. The benign URLs do not detract from the malicious nature of the exploit.

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.
  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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
098b9aa02e39de78fccd0754e4b6d6e40d1936d5ea76e6ec19446af86f254bb6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 67790 bytes

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