Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2090b25c69e9122e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: 4f805d3615dc054d489cfcd0e692702e SHA-1: 6e3b3b12942749fb6feeb1eb6a4b862faec87c58 SHA-256: 2090b25c69e9122ee307804267d743228dd81a993904d3946ba0e162341a3ca8
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to facilitate arbitrary code execution. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' is likely the secondary payload. The exploit targets a vulnerability in the handling of TIFF images within XFA forms.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
5b1ccaba8fe723cd04cd6daf5a9313e9dc5e33662ae4764a8ad3963de7878b87
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9802 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).