Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7375915d963f1d9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB
MD5: c7f75459be5159af1780503a76988782 SHA-1: ca58897dc02695cc2498258410e03710dce980d9 SHA-256: 7375915d963f1d9fde7666d2da928ee280bad08804c1f8135755d66b5e3addae
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The exploit likely serves to download and execute a secondary payload, though no specific URLs for this are present in the provided evidence.

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
f9e966a77d6c39bf8b0bdc5994a811f470cda532c5ce8cbaf67401f4e045c190		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101234 bytes

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