Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c1219c3ebf89825…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB
MD5: 99db9e96448818df8aa18f4de1d308f9 SHA-1: 4f732dcaca79526cc9f2e84160a9ef9fe49448f9 SHA-256: 5c1219c3ebf89825d24a8c97ef36f9142ad4850b98f9bcfa82207cceeb0029b2
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains heuristics indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded XFA form likely contains JavaScript that is executed to exploit this vulnerability, potentially leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. No specific malware family could be identified.

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
6d2117bc95de5779106e0393239d1cbe908eb1088fcaee877595f9e25c642325		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101114 bytes

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