Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 188cfbbe86c4a7fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB
MD5: a4e3e491538842778c26de9e19f73ee2 SHA-1: 00ea4754a012ce4af69e79bdb24b01cae894b6c6 SHA-256: 188cfbbe86c4a7fb05007c9a2f6a1e5f42ae43c0a6a6388eaf12bbd87d7dfd52
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to be used for client-side code execution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The exploit likely serves to download and execute a secondary payload, although no specific URLs for this were found in the provided evidence.

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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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
74902e793aefe10363c893a89f307f1952b7ee810cdd1e9adacc2aeb484229ad		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 95455 bytes

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