Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6fc57e2f5968252b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB
MD5: 2609b2eb0cd8b1437b3664738d3d5822 SHA-1: 327cf68f345a35af188e173d5b044f50d7d709dd SHA-256: 6fc57e2f5968252ba70fca61cfcb1ec1d1ee4547f8daaa4155f1fa8405393366
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader's XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute a malicious payload, as indicated by the critical heuristic firings and the ML classifier's high confidence score. The embedded file and script payload markers further support the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Malware.Agent-9783730-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Malware.Agent-9783730-0
  • 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
451ba51498dc7a7f826bdaac3820e573bf81ef02baf43781c3a82f294a1bd940		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80038 bytes

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