PDF malware analysis — malicious · cf16f1a0c6b84517

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.2 KB

MD5: d3ad2c771cca1a005adcc04c452c1698 SHA-1: 7d8e579c706c226b13779539eced84d3cbbc4690 SHA-256: cf16f1a0c6b845175e3a4407b5f03e1fe9ca1983ee13ec4a7d4ef6e67302f036

126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded file and XFA form are secondary indicators. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of a known vulnerability to execute arbitrary code.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `3cd7658b22920b64ae877228060b098010a8ceca1675362d0881aa1db737dcca`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xEA	12978 bytes

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