Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 603eaf69a632f735…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: 18bf7ca0a0122a882819b6517f9ffe3f SHA-1: 7baf0eefd0260af1676f288734b91e1b3aacc292 SHA-256: 603eaf69a632f7350f53dd2d3971b31a7fa3f234e529b632d5562326cf62cf45
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it is designed to execute arbitrary code. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The exploit likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload, though no specific URLs for this purpose were extracted.

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
6c1d673101b4e55c6a3186a841714037693bee2795e853c468517d5d34b61f1b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101328 bytes