Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72ecd67d5b4b7d0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

131.1 KB
MD5: c4fc7958dbed649766b8e2895375b53a SHA-1: f23843f59418d375f5899f66397704112882e62f SHA-256: 72ecd67d5b4b7d0bcf7884c8b11ed6ad41da44bd55fea3323dfbedda45340408
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical alert for CVE-2010-0188, which is an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload, although no specific download URLs or scripts were directly extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.4/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
37c7ee258dccfb753b8aa927a2ee75cdcebc95d9625c16e71a628ce44938145e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13711 bytes

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