Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e1ce8a70f931160…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB
MD5: 3eed8deadb845a61df2970d99f1892c0 SHA-1: a6d866178157aff99e348e0e761186ee59f29655 SHA-256: 2e1ce8a70f93116050b5aa33cb31d667228ef2956a990b081df88da8fe22d3a1
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. The PDF contains embedded scripts and an embedded file, indicating it's designed to deliver a malicious payload. The XFA form contains executable script, likely for exploiting the vulnerability and executing further stages. The embedded URLs are related to XFA schemas and Adobe, but do not appear to be directly malicious.

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
e96efedb310868e6e3819cac35a9491fba7e3f07e52b4667bd7c3ad8ca8ec792		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 79841 bytes

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