Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b511b9cf121c18e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 96de6327d47c9f50d5b7bfe444d64934 SHA-1: 3028e466936924df3677e0a51b9d2b74f0df2d3d SHA-256: 3b511b9cf121c18e51e1dc0f4566866cdfcd6dc7f9e56b9116b0abe08b2eec1e
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA forms. The heuristic firings indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, which is characteristic of exploit documents designed to deliver a secondary payload. No specific family could be identified, but the exploit vector is clear.

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
5a557fe66774c48619d3164599d1522d295f5531ef40f2f7d94f64419e5a8419		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101447 bytes

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