MALICIOUS
128
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment
T1566 Phishing
T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment
This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The presence of an embedded file and script payload further supports its malicious nature. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF. The primary attack vector is likely phishing, where the user is tricked into opening the malicious PDF, triggering the exploit.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 4
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Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188PDF 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.
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOADPDF 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.
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Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDEDPDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
embedded_file_obj0008.binc90ee9595cdaeb1a5fd6ae0d25ac5786faab6ef40a18ec1ca7164028f8c3ace9 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xEA | 13036 bytes |
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