Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 645307041e35e6e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB
MD5: 8b6a1bf1bc1f6197052739a426bc120f SHA-1: 1b5820e598ef58c15269e9f2ab1783cbfbb55ea8 SHA-256: 645307041e35e6e00559b399b6c9d140fedba419666ce113b851d0bda22f6ba5
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA forms. The heuristic firings indicate an embedded script payload within a raw stream, suggesting the exploit is used to download and execute a secondary malicious file. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious, supporting the exploitation vector.

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
4f3d8cf3b95c11490994eb429ecc0d0460d01895c4c7d0a929cc83d382f1c7cc		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101266 bytes

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