PDF malware analysis — malicious · a5c06d2cc02134e7

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Authoring application: stb

MD5: 1cccce5c6892fe82aaedeb6a56af6c8b SHA-1: 03043edea718d07520ef93826511c1c986be13d6 SHA-256: a5c06d2cc02134e71fa3eb375633867c21ab4a140f247f06278d23de99247efe

134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload, identified by the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' heuristic and the 'CVE_2010_0188' exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded JavaScript is the primary mechanism for this execution, likely leading to further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

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 script payload in PDF stream medium 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 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
Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL

The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_001_off000002e7.js` `b4044921178d5a836de17e49d856b57e2ab36843aa30acb594196d6e4deecde6`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7	73945 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 5 long base64-like blob(s).

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