Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64dc3b83a011b0d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: 0416ce2eea793553fd1544056d63b3f7 SHA-1: a77bbd7c51b8190eb7d0a2643168f2583c399c84 SHA-256: 64dc3b83a011b0d9dcbb7a04bbc74d3eaa7b8e7c9df0bebebc9e1a7dc09f24b5
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms, to achieve code execution. The PDF also contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to deliver a secondary payload.

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
7dbc92d9eadd63f08b02312242ddc5d1883cc8d7b36d463fbbfb3b7ecbdd12b7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101381 bytes