Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6268f74bd1b357d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB Created: 2002-02-02 59:55:01 Authoring application: e
MD5: fda69cdb0533e963b625fe302bb6a439 SHA-1: 1ef71e5456ec07ed79db0768d06f7d7a7ce0fc9e SHA-256: 6268f74bd1b357d357c5b5b215fea51e33ba4931dfef0321b8f531721c896258
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, specifically targeting XFA forms. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript payload, stream_003_off00000389.js, is likely responsible for executing the exploit, leading to arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0029.bin
86fec2fdbada8111361a0397b2287d0cd8eaa82d5a6dac05ef6c0c197c8f2a0d		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 29 at offset 0x2F3 62 bytes
stream_003_off00000389.js
0a5bbe5f572472a9daa8044aaa9d9c905160485e238aaf91b40c46464e011cdd		 decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x389 52880 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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