Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ca1bf1d92741949…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB
MD5: 612877e6d516539d7a54056e008dd46f SHA-1: 913be1372d3805b420c790233c92e5f944a3bcc4 SHA-256: 6ca1bf1d927419499291677b188eab6f1168876ce5074677327aa6dcd9d1ea87
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and heuristics. It exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA forms. This exploit likely serves to download and execute a secondary payload, although no specific URLs or scripts were directly extracted for this purpose.

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
698322fda91be398f44e9ff698ae57cccbb2438956b39f550c14f97ee5bd9068		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101138 bytes

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