Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ad392a274232cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB
MD5: 8d7b663023a652a7adb1b219da3daf00 SHA-1: c2e26dc13fb0c72a851c5bdd60b96b5dcb401d86 SHA-256: 7ad392a274232cee8ec52add04aa6995a3af16c377e53b36705094e820ba2a64
176 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 for Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The presence of an embedded script payload further supports its malicious nature. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a second-stage payload, although the specific content of that payload could not be determined from the provided evidence.

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
bbdc1e4da83c39b26e899196f431c2b413f093029410cb453261486586d14747		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51227 bytes

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