Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e11aabe7a9427aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 02c0db05f24bcbbdf07d928316f44974 SHA-1: 10e13292e838216b8e16368bb57d57423d0278c4 SHA-256: 6e11aabe7a9427aa12a75dc264864e05101a1d95e01c0357c4810364d90b2fc4
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 an ML classifier. It exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms, to achieve code execution. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file suggests the PDF is designed to deliver and execute a secondary malicious component.

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
5927ead55909e1dd56d62da05c4573456ab82493ab8e3b498f96803c27b7d53f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101479 bytes

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