Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73e7453d5c0fdafd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB
MD5: 9b0a4b38de3068fdd6ae36c0351971f0 SHA-1: dd6ca57775318b089dda53f191fcfb412875504f SHA-256: 73e7453d5c0fdafdf57170e51a7db9fb88f202833f0a4d00ab7f08dabfd3e219
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload further supports this finding. The exploit likely facilitates the execution of a secondary payload, although the specific nature of that payload cannot be determined from 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
805b06ed2bb535bbd671783bcd0d78349751c3a14f3b36959620fed9c8cfc4d6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101569 bytes

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