Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38579bd4f6ae8039…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB
MD5: d79e406d4ead7d8640aee184bdd2c1d5 SHA-1: 1a7a97858a4a75ee0afad10e8a9b72cbf5eb10bd SHA-256: 38579bd4f6ae80391e77cb12c8fe011260d20013851e938ac8ebe3a6973ad9b6
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution upon opening the document. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads further indicates malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
803efc7200b3c310a0ff7f9c1e821f87a93c105ab0b0ef65c23bea229a8a3d28		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80017 bytes

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