Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 260f0ed274281b78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: a4492188594bc83e22c9042d00b98dfd SHA-1: 43da13b2d75c3069bc145d2b78128b66f80daf22 SHA-256: 260f0ed274281b7844314fe5e2c7e05e31c0ad3885f8dcb4f93e772a42d5e0c5
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

This PDF document exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, leveraging XFA forms and embedded scripts to deliver a malicious payload. The embedded script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the exact nature of the payload is not discernible from the provided script fragments. 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
508141b4797283c27bd1acb325c4ddb6bf09ec47504185545070526d1b368afd		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101459 bytes

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