Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 710e764f63d26c88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB
MD5: 8bed0450ab38d3da1e0be13c1d491a0f SHA-1: c44c7f398a9691e938334b5023fe01189abecc68 SHA-256: 710e764f63d26c88dd51edbb3d99840fb67733809e0214b3de5240fde1b7d137
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, which is a critical finding. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads further supports the exploitation of this known vulnerability.

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
683d45f4925f11908cce4b84ba18e7b5e98ed0a70215910cfed6b719eb5d7012
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 79967 bytes