Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24c35659c2738e44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: a1b3b8087095e0592752d66bfc51d44f SHA-1: 3366ee38f483e38c807fe5f188f4f9109e98d80c SHA-256: 24c35659c2738e44e9baec4902803663e657bcb3ee93a2f9da5e378f03d7fb85
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image parsing. The PDF contains an embedded script payload within an XFA form, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening. The script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, leveraging the exploit to bypass security measures. The embedded URLs are related to XFA schema definitions, but their presence in conjunction with the exploit suggests a 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
eddf97dc8b1eb66eb3f7518b58f71a0df71173612a08474e7ea475b8f584a14d		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101405 bytes

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