Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a0236ff6614023f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB
MD5: 3a2770371deb5e748b442eb03b637da5 SHA-1: 0da21885290505fa503091d6b7e04624576402a9 SHA-256: 6a0236ff6614023f11701853b1e418f5f83cefa67b5fd9f69a52810dcf4e9160
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader's XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, which is a common technique for delivering secondary payloads. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the embedded file further supports this assessment.

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
f3b4c336a121eba32ce5fcc1a37da8f24828a134a4dbb2a77221ca95884575b6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101193 bytes