Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4df1a255b501ba28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB
MD5: ab8da7f5d1bac99e58307ba1b471d96e SHA-1: 5c155e6fa6839cc4ca82bfbfdaa603ea22bcc44a SHA-256: 4df1a255b501ba28d5a95a37e4717fb4449f052c6b89ed6cb6b926c4c6e1a48c
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell

This PDF document exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, leveraging an XFA form with an embedded script payload. The script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, indicating a clear intent to compromise the user's system. The embedded file further suggests the delivery of additional malicious content.

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
7a140e68276902e81d12ea7bed319e8a94629047cf67ed07e52c560fcaddb113		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 79556 bytes

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