Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a65b640318c8cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.5 KB Created: 2010-08-29 16:19:36 Authoring application: styeZek colSnap
MD5: 362a83223cb73906e0d5702b1d3bdf80 SHA-1: 7f9eb80f976eea3e1846ffdd26990d1df0145c6d SHA-256: 4a65b640318c8cc4ce906a7d03ca78b33b21dedaad3a787d32ffadbb955dee22
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded content and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The embedded script payload, though obfuscated, suggests the execution of a second-stage payload, likely leveraging the identified vulnerability.

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-81 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-81
  • 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
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0006.bin
d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x213 84 bytes
embedded_file_obj0007.bin
24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x2B1 228 bytes
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
4f7b7ce31e747f4ea90beffb5b605c41ce46d3027a92f656d9f38f2ec5c42ad5		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x3E0 1101 bytes
embedded_file_obj0009.bin
c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x877 199 bytes
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
eda51c361c3d9361dbb867956fd83b8ef331ff6fb347eb9291598c4668ec5ac9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x98A 6702 bytes
embedded_file_obj0011.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x2402 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0012.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x2499 56 bytes

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