Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52afbf2737422134…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 2c81a0efc6ba3f18bbaf36ab470995d8 SHA-1: 88549abc33c6635e99f18502b965364f267e85d0 SHA-256: 52afbf27374221341106a4ce00067f01d2509cb3615dcc1a2ff450e8c470741c
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The PDF also contains embedded script payloads within its XFA forms, further indicating malicious intent. No specific malware family could be identified, but the exploit mechanism is clear.

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
63bcbcc3d5a9eefd528db0cdfdaf6f1f1ba6c4dc63ccfab3010bd1a7086b2f12		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101466 bytes

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