Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 867fd2760fa27596…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB
MD5: 79309a31fb8e5ee2c3d927b84912d5ef SHA-1: 2af75bcf5aaf16991dbfe85a5ce8b6469b36149c SHA-256: 867fd2760fa275967465277b7695e4bd19d98bb071f8416763b4b9f748e316e4
116 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads further supports this. The exploit likely facilitates the execution of a secondary payload, although the specific nature of that payload cannot be determined from the provided evidence.

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
7af03fbb7fb2396c84c1d401296c63432dd13b4b611d362ba068c999c942584b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101604 bytes