Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f7fae755c69d9b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB
MD5: 65e90e9066cfa52300565b063a5832ee SHA-1: 3db1cefa3a2482a4ea7a6ddee64d2442cfbab6ef SHA-256: 6f7fae755c69d9b011253cfc1231d4a43df87b6dab82cdc0d51e7bc59a0a91b3
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, as indicated by the critical heuristic firing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, which is often used to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The presence of an embedded file and script payload further supports this conclusion. No specific family could be identified.

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
95623cb8ecb452298e06b137156ea41685ad10e8b2e2c7e9290c46d5d6de98d5		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 79832 bytes

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