Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cd2ca8539260f8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: 3a67e3e319bed5612f4a2dcaa1b7bf68 SHA-1: a95d21f4f64c604c8a09c3feffdf0ebca981117e SHA-256: 3cd2ca8539260f8e21be808e91fc44eea6032022cfb2325c2ed6dc6069c1b5bb
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via an XFA form. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is designed to trigger this exploit, likely leading to the execution of a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts strongly indicates a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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
4b7fa1f31ecb7abe10a6c588a48816689f45d86fec8f40e1749ce0bf85a8a5ce		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101377 bytes

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