Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68cde1c32f927356…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: df4fdba39eea13a019c3137f50008040 SHA-1: 24de55c4b570f31ed468798d042e26c4d241f469 SHA-256: 68cde1c32f92735668c4b8736e70142d6a3164778d0c6ed9bd140aadb434a3f3
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The embedded script payload and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. The exploit likely serves to download and execute a secondary payload, aligning with common attack patterns for document-based malware.

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
420c72a96fa7e16d4458a5f811675788f898fb68bfcc2134b47610dab024d3dd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101436 bytes

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