Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15f2d1159ee868f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.1 KB
MD5: 56d848bca1e2798446e3d28a35040197 SHA-1: 8d1bdb8867dfef7d686f5e097d71ad23df42363a SHA-256: 15f2d1159ee868f264a1f4e59b4e3fa4c98203189138aeb2b5ebbbe726d3cce9
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by an ML classifier and heuristics. It exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms, to achieve code execution. This technique is commonly used to download and execute further malicious content.

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
d79bf2df36a3d8d8f66ce39c69067b0a814a73ae8fef87e5435fa1fddc132ad8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101730 bytes