Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 417612aa927d816c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB
MD5: 4aca531295ce49b47c8a76ce176f4985 SHA-1: 883e9a04c616d47f3df982460dd3a8e3061e7e31 SHA-256: 417612aa927d816c45918e0ece0d0fd5f826fbc7746d332cf5ab56a5c2f122d0
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF. The PDF contains an embedded script payload within an XFA form, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening. The embedded URLs are related to XFA schemas and Adobe, but their reputation is unknown or benign, suggesting they are not directly involved in the malicious payload delivery.

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
de407c06ba76bd374be5d131ee4cb3bb3a825b805bfeb4f3a433decb78d4459b		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101559 bytes

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