Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 721c186c002e2d0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB
MD5: 4e9582d85c9ab734d805077d95c35457 SHA-1: e9a2333e0ad8c30e5ba15e61bf0478aec661c057 SHA-256: 721c186c002e2d0f68a4e83bfbcf06f73ed94df87c69eca6b641a0927b2b2391
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains embedded JavaScript and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded script payload and XFA form suggest the exploit is used to download and run a secondary malicious payload. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

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
d4988d3561eb7e1008032c1a26ddbc3b0d19c255eee98d6734d3fbe65c391abf
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101606 bytes