PDF malware analysis — malicious · ece4034d5e152307

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.1 KB

MD5: ed9fa61e2cc99a0be73caa8e8a7e992c SHA-1: 215126ff708b451ab236c81f2f71997e20f55ad6 SHA-256: ece4034d5e1523074f43ad0563b60f0ac0e09faa80d6bc92a874993a62241dcb

126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit for Adobe Reader. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload by exploiting a known vulnerability. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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` `61179032e58261a22582ddd83c6dcd6004eeddd3004449a921b4774945f4660f`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xEA	12844 bytes

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