Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e97436b5674ec82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB
MD5: 78349ec6d4d8bc1717bbcf592dafc87c SHA-1: 83ad938a23c4fbff4eb15b6a0dd4ed2c7ca7b7dd SHA-256: 6e97436b5674ec828050dcd68ad49064f77449c1561b6604817c9026783e7a86
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, a known vulnerability for client-side code execution. The embedded script payload, likely JavaScript given the XFA context, is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. While the specific family is not identifiable, the exploit and embedded script indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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
8df5f7d56c766f3c2158c638743a582b51c7d227564a17742b3d232eb4cfcd7d		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 79856 bytes

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