Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74caf15c58a28a86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB
MD5: cf7721cd72d8bfe82d22f31289277571 SHA-1: 502b9f48473991c3bf0a73b75a552e1404cd2d04 SHA-256: 74caf15c58a28a869774a6f101382f8793d9ba2f3f0b6d02afe96546d7df25a7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, specifically targeting the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file further indicates malicious intent, likely for the execution of a secondary stage. The benign URLs present do not detract from the malicious nature indicated by the exploit and embedded content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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
ee87c02caeef04bab47be891eab7d1e91436eee2b9a48c958dd75d08c7ab0bf7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51007 bytes

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