Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80e262000150639f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB
MD5: 392135698dd2f9ebecab7711cfd85cec SHA-1: ade6ed32a2391aa1e5290ed2d5009bf33a69b2f6 SHA-256: 80e262000150639f2fc83b3e932f3b42e00aed790e5b5ddffa0bd3a632030c92
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, specifically targeting XFA forms. The heuristic firings indicate an embedded script payload and an exploit targeting LibTIFF within XFA. This suggests the document is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload, aligning with a common initial access vector via spearphishing attachments.

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
1d4ce4816808dca385e671beee4a33cb9d400ecc8bffb4e90620b77dbcd8771f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80036 bytes

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