Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ce97b3aef81c9df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB
MD5: e93659a56c9ecd1e47322a05261e4515 SHA-1: 7b1c893f10e67ceefd5503b8a61353ae29f43335 SHA-256: 4ce97b3aef81c9dfb1e62d5f2a1590d971dcdaea339a97f3cffb8858ebc33cc5
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, to achieve code execution. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads further indicates malicious intent. The script appears to be designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, though its exact functionality is obfuscated.

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
b0ca582cbc24376bf354cb5bbca7dd1ab7a8fb60b1f12b7e24251cb64a024b1e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101321 bytes

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