Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 634106e6ea4c6df4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: 5007120d5a84ce33d7e93ebf01c43b41 SHA-1: 3e4d71482097b7ecf75bff22c05d5cdd4c26f0e9 SHA-256: 634106e6ea4c6df42abef3c6898d10a53ba0df67e35cd577462b62217d9eeb45
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to achieve code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of embedded script markers and an embedded file further supports this malicious intent. No specific family could be 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
3b2739e69ceddbbbc0571e9d6f97d5838bbc291c0289ff379b48bfd06654d70d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101310 bytes