Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 612519dc970e2b14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB
MD5: f606ef279564b607ea4ae61585e17ea7 SHA-1: dc0d2bd259fab85356150a3db1fe19b4bc76cb10 SHA-256: 612519dc970e2b14f1b67f8124223eb93aa45e35bc02b2e94d8e4a82816d926f
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 exhibiting characteristics of exploit activity. Specifically, it triggers the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit likely facilitates the execution of arbitrary code, potentially to download and run a second-stage payload. No specific malware family was 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
3c0e099899c08f277738ad64914756440de85377ee74901b6591399689f6862a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101107 bytes

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