Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 719ff9b124e35bf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: b6b5f7516184eccecd4d03ffba48c5ab SHA-1: 4fc02b8cf5468f4f9aaa900f6f4361b3d319b6e9 SHA-256: 719ff9b124e35bf4cc14ca422a15e514bbadaf5babcb6e15ee1edb8fd2ff18ee
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution, 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.

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
b34d69c0890ca8e08e9baa4f707019e152f98f95bae84beeb5da1224e62b0579
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101352 bytes