Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6194faa693f71f90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: hXr (via va)
MD5: 7351a8469aee7c4536e04f94c7d2b430 SHA-1: 5b95c5a5fd62140fff9bad56fd3155409c05a983 SHA-256: 6194faa693f71f90bfe18e0497f273300e64914c0a1273c037e6107ea90673cf
118 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely through the embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin'. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the exploit targets client execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.4/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
6381212a323887c8357a76180f162d48d2e3374d3c63c0fd0b7f1eb75ce87f9c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9895 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).