Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bb3ab156523e343…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.2 KB
MD5: b57b34dc09785aec218bd032b43482ac SHA-1: b43cc33be0b7bcb270b931b0402517ffd6dd8217 SHA-256: 6bb3ab156523e343e792be4bf36405fefeae68d44355532e96b702f04dc7406c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by an ML classifier. It contains an XFA form which is exploited using CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is likely responsible for executing the exploit and potentially downloading further malicious content.

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 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.
  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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
0117178a89a3df69f9e8ffa023b6e5782b7561ea5f761c062b44c82daa1099e8		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 63919 bytes

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