Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5db40c8db16bfbec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: 68df3512defa8176db9e873988ccbae0 SHA-1: 79f829879d95bda84e5c71074408890365e9af5b SHA-256: 5db40c8db16bfbec2f25b14e9945750c313cb95235f0714363a85a8b1fe090e2
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The embedded script payload and ML classifier further support this assessment. The exploit likely facilitates the execution of a secondary payload, although the specific nature of that payload is not detailed in the provided evidence.

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
2f7f03fb75be342c7ec746ab7a1d149b682c900816a909a4275cf1bd83a87984		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101310 bytes

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