PDF malware analysis — malicious · 5b28c2d043d77665

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB

MD5: 4b226bd1c0734239a6e68db183b22634 SHA-1: 4341d0a261d80b36722bd4d1b286f27f83d011c6 SHA-256: 5b28c2d043d77665c54ed6c733c941370070f02551dac66954471d1304b63dee

116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by an ML classifier and heuristics. It exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms, to achieve code execution. The presence of an embedded file and script payload further indicates malicious intent, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `d4b3a586a19de45ae0f94be09dcc0f0e02c4dc39d998de93b66c27b155737f1f`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	101474 bytes

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