Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68930dc43ed4c3df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 7124f2dc7c6ce6a32486f061d90d0433 SHA-1: 1bc6f047bee8e3937d1f5012124b80d08ea935e4 SHA-256: 68930dc43ed4c3df70fdb1b7d22e7e50c09f607dfb5127b833bec95c72308801
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form with a malicious TIFF image payload. Static analysis identified a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is known to be exploitable via crafted TIFF images within XFA forms in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code 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 XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
  • 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
  • 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/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
19da37dc70adce3737d3ae2a7ec776119ebbcfa7d1b44b049026dd0980450fa2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13473 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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