Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4502df5500ecac49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB
MD5: 1a72cc7a06ffcb78c21656a747835071 SHA-1: 6b1b7a490f28ecb470a897c1776b81232955984a SHA-256: 4502df5500ecac4943aa9252a1726322079c0fd9355bf8833c4c07e65e7b403a
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Click Fraud T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Link

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This indicates an attempt to deliver a malicious payload by leveraging a known exploit. The embedded script payload within the XFA form further supports this, suggesting the script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of embedded URLs, though not directly malicious in reputation, are part of the XFA structure.

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
e0e176a16dbf78007367afa3ea8acdeee26fe5952185f5e2b4819fedab84bf12		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101103 bytes

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