Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77de04789aadd3b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB
MD5: c76088ff7942986b14c530597a61e949 SHA-1: 1659910ca5584ee9a38cd2cba8e115e9896ec351 SHA-256: 77de04789aadd3b4da54ab565bfa6b9fbd2ac2f4b758684274c999426119a06f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, leveraging XFA forms to deliver a malicious payload. The presence of risky executable script within the XFA form indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code. While no specific malware family is identified, the exploit mechanism is clear.

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.
  • XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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
0b0184e7254ebd5cc49ca98afe3c48b96c8bf5ff2f6053a397bf2527c50905a5		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 83174 bytes

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