Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c732c02f68b46ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB
MD5: ec43c4fe8d96d039afac1bb1020677da SHA-1: b405e94fcb97768a37b127e6abbe06921f13279c SHA-256: 6c732c02f68b46ae6768abfa089bcab4065c9c36c302f14983af4848c5ce2074
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by an ML classifier and contains heuristics indicating it exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded script, although obfuscated, likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for initial compromise. The benign URLs present are likely decoys or standard XFA schema references.

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
8272dd0ae3232bc196893db48811e7932f1b5378e18af9b65217ffc1ed713e63		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80359 bytes

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