Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a4d02e1630e317f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB
MD5: 51b2981ac7b17f89898f999c27aeb3c7 SHA-1: 571d4f66012b9860605368d235c69667ab468690 SHA-256: 4a4d02e1630e317f1595f3de6f466a1355612fbf1a9842c1613b9819cb968554
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The XFA form within the PDF contains an executable script that likely serves as the initial stage for delivering a secondary payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are associated with the XFA structure, and the exploit itself 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
3b07c6a5f09a83b042992237e2d2dad990007e1765f31412242f12c95c8996f3		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101119 bytes

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