Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d89f96f005a960d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.1 KB
MD5: 7a71f24737f10c5d82eacdd8732c50b5 SHA-1: 98f73038dbdbf9539899a6efbd9ec5cacb3a3a3e SHA-256: 4d89f96f005a960d0baa31c7103d1042390fe7005373f9e8e3d7fd507d024f20
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1204.001 Malicious File: Malicious Link T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code upon opening the document. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although the exact mechanism is obfuscated. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further supports the exploit delivery vector.

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
b8dd0ff834c5b179e704a1128257c4ecc8530269533bb2f3e41c6404aa8fd712		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 63828 bytes

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