PDF malware analysis — malicious · 72419c25ce59c8ad

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB

MD5: 2ad54938e44ce5b4bcf7d8d3df8b7da4 SHA-1: d5e3f630697a79c28dcc6a2c59d43356311c3c18 SHA-256: 72419c25ce59c8adbd2e800c06b80956fc89b6b1bf0549372a590df919e3b9e5

116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by an ML classifier and heuristics. It exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms, to achieve code execution. The embedded script payload suggests the intent is to download and execute a secondary stage. No specific malware family could be confidently 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `d1f572e4dfd9135d13caab80b198a424200281594709a75b0b9834cd01cae062`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	101233 bytes

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