MALICIOUS
128
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a known Adobe Reader vulnerability. The ML classifier strongly flags this as malicious. The embedded file and XFA form are components of the exploit delivery mechanism. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, likely to facilitate the download and execution of additional malicious content.
Machine Learning
- Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000
Heuristics 4
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Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188PDF 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.
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOADPDF 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.
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Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDEDPDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF 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.bin109b52b4ca039c8d5865981b16fc1b25c25362c7a63d916bf76cd73acfb6c4f3 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xEA | 12857 bytes |
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