Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 166f62ee2392e12e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 7e8f50c65f2b8e2656d8e5e3c3a14929 SHA-1: 26591012df0e49e700ef35b935381dbc824555ef SHA-256: 166f62ee2392e12e4901b1e83d2d1c78b2f79295581e8d09c678a24de9ea08e4
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit likely leads to the execution of arbitrary code, potentially downloading and running a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script markers strongly indicates a malicious intent to compromise the user's system through this known exploit.

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
3122c7545a25f81c65ee533b3b0630c23fe9f00dddebf9f598fcd60839e37075		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101424 bytes

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