Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78a887b092dbcfe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.7 KB
MD5: 5c146004031eb05a436312847796a487 SHA-1: 1367da7396e130c6c7f2bceaa2a6ace126c7f1c7 SHA-256: 78a887b092dbcfe08c41269477c714152dedad402e9e8d8530b212b087518c80
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to allow for arbitrary code execution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The exploit is likely used to deliver a secondary payload, although no specific details of that payload were extracted.

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.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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
c4da612915e12f54e61f242f188e38ec2bb08dc5effe5bb426832293dcc1d557		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11180 bytes

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