Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8635d4c956d0926d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB
MD5: 1e05c0637b06dc2b04fe5db2c8dd3520 SHA-1: 4f24f7f9fd2be7cc20447db01c44435cdfb89445 SHA-256: 8635d4c956d0926d5c200910443977faa862efb7a93c361d0bd9e15a7b08a92c
110 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF document contains an exploit targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit is designed to achieve code execution on the victim's machine, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this file.

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 XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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/xci/1.0/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.4/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
689ad39d8da31d281d420de1b2cbba3cc9c29ed9a6b2331cd4f3ff54ba3d2e3a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 2974 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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