Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75c27c29146c44b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: dcbc4042ec8ca4ea27b751fed5845953 SHA-1: 2f96727f8140d997aefd1d3b9c1d0ff39738eb5c SHA-256: 75c27c29146c44b90169a0d3552e32767cb4690f12c146c39ecfbe6ebae3fdea
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 contains heuristics indicating the use of XFA forms and an embedded script payload. Specifically, it fires for CVE-2010-0188, a known exploit for Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component when processing XFA forms. This exploit is likely used to achieve arbitrary code execution, enabling the download and execution of a secondary payload.

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
2bb65581c2224089839bc7d09cfb3ea9ca46ae2b009bb228ef7c2dc1d039caa6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101344 bytes

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