PDF malware analysis — malicious · 497252c7e122f0fb

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.2 KB

MD5: 08cd7f7ba2b940ef03ee60f71fdcf88b SHA-1: 314642a6a5b81c5c69b150da5b88b15ddc6e01ee SHA-256: 497252c7e122f0fbd1aec8aad46a22c394f61b3e4d4995680867cf1f2a980e40

126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the presence of an embedded exploit confirms a high likelihood of a drive-by download attack.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

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 script payload in PDF stream medium 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 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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `608fd969cd7797be03ae9234e36a70b55f27a54beb43d31ea1c65d3a53c8178f`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xEA	12886 bytes

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