Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c88542f97ffad99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.1 KB
MD5: 4db0222a87b9d74f9c0c831999d212c9 SHA-1: df912a2c5b47194ef950ec00580da07fccf5540d SHA-256: 6c88542f97ffad990039ef9c91a947888ef4f17f8d636487ea9aa6850f913ba2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code upon opening in a vulnerable Adobe Reader version. The embedded script, though obfuscated, is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The ML classifier strongly supports a malicious verdict.

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
56095781090dffe6bd974603f603b18f2f45297cc177490dc3740b8d162ad4e7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 60817 bytes

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