Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 875041c3604d3e3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.4 KB
MD5: de9335f0015782c09856abff350728f2 SHA-1: 3307e0ef8118546eeae3e2f0e5b8d5f75c6a8f43 SHA-256: 875041c3604d3e3a11ea06017330d72716228be16d054fb488a17e98c0e821d4
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains an embedded XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicated by the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic and the presence of an exploit payload within an XFA image stream. The benign URLs present are related to XFA schema definitions and do not indicate malicious intent.

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 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.
  • ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX
    Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85
    ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
  • 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
stream_000_off00000207.bin
0dc79404144cb90dfc15c21e28a0afe391f996b3ec267e5f481f8c116c0407c5
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x207 13469 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).