Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19962fc60ceebf09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 5be887cfbb4a3af340e2d42ba2169438 SHA-1: 9e25bc64ab145eea2d913633ef9ff912d1acfc17 SHA-256: 19962fc60ceebf090766fe2af71b2186c03a527e60653061c742a8eb4c9867a9
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA component. This exploit is known to facilitate arbitrary code execution, likely for downloading and running a secondary malicious payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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
d4a436fbf31d6a424bdea56f74943bcbd5c486541f982ab0b25115be0c58713e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101400 bytes