Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a09a8e62a956eb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB
MD5: f17a15d04e14150638fb6cdeba8ee28e SHA-1: 7b165e5e37595bc93e34116e4e9679e988d8c202 SHA-256: 2a09a8e62a956eb5f8d02182a3f6c2fe5e8e6a3c32f90e72712fb8bcd25d5486
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling within XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The PDF contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, indicating a multi-stage attack. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability.

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
b75fda39544833b7008d0202f90993cc23f3793d27c548eb187f56ed7b33b838		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101079 bytes

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