Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22ee447be6e22c6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB
MD5: 8bc915c155f7e2e011a3f73c5bfa3d48 SHA-1: 0d9f308f3b77d05bf36f53bec58de334fc388a27 SHA-256: 22ee447be6e22c6a32574bbcb86a1c1c5c9633b72e0a2cfc2a2308906c0f6652
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF T1204 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF document exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader via an XFA form. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded file further supports the malicious intent.

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
f872848caa6be724a4496989c2597b74786d09e54a2bca3e1332e00a0bb6e4fa		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 79960 bytes

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