Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 605bf3a41fe3670f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.1 KB
MD5: 686d0b77fb693499070fa7523dc82389 SHA-1: d2c4a08ea98f7e33cea291e6cd0e2db5b668f2e3 SHA-256: 605bf3a41fe3670f7249a8f9b7f9e01056e2df72a3f440c52452493c7003cbce
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely as part of a phishing attack where the document is delivered as an attachment. No specific malware family was identified, but the exploit's nature points to a client execution attack.

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
9d011dd48c9a26c071bd8865dec9ff0a95c9b307cec9f607df7205ea7a052084		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101732 bytes

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