Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fbb2333c68a0fa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: d616a88c4563d5fca2b63b12ded6c732 SHA-1: 16a56d70c9cd97c4696bf7bb495d74915fac7539 SHA-256: 3fbb2333c68a0fa6459174c6fb55bc9f054a2c9ec1bb5aaea860f5960b63fe63
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

This PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and embedded TIFF images. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is designed to trigger this exploit, leading to arbitrary code execution. The primary attack vector is likely phishing, where the user is tricked into opening the malicious PDF.

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
5411fe6b37ae01147cd7951ab1f6a2b0541d0eb758cc61ebb379836825f46e2a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101444 bytes

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