Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cc4f68ee03569f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.7 KB
MD5: 4493fabe789e641124a8a02909ae5230 SHA-1: ee45ddb6286c759c8d6de6ae8c7053c3b5811a56 SHA-256: 6cc4f68ee03569f8c83631027b374bdd462cec58e0a6cef623869897dfba3fea
258 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to execute a secondary payload from the embedded file. The embedded file itself is the primary IOC.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 9

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Pidief-3 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Pidief-3
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • 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
  • ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85
    ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.4/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
1a368b73ff7d476aef08950cebc3bcf12131cd0ae4e2b0d6b101251b4eeb5621		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x7A 13441 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Pidief-3
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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