Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c0e7f2f1b9aff3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB
MD5: 419d79808e0e5b9135fce033873dd94a SHA-1: 20e9b96fca7a93a4aeed39464d73d32ab23b17bf SHA-256: 1c0e7f2f1b9aff3cd1e6c2d482bb1fee2d82ee7043809cf11151522d8b3129f1
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The presence of an embedded script payload within an XFA form further supports the malicious intent. The embedded URLs are likely related to the exploit or payload delivery.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • XFA form contains executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose dataset contains a <script> or <xfa:script> block — XFA scripting has been the exploit primitive for several Adobe Reader RCEs (CVE-2010-0188 family, CVE-2018-4901, and others). Plain XFA without scripts is far less risky.
  • 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
  • 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/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
a84a51cfd57acb8ac9a07cd9794c9ce90efb2a99960ced18b428ea9556d681d9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101626 bytes

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