Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55cbc83990bfaa59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB
MD5: 23b03da812e147d7ab871c8fe97218e3 SHA-1: 461a1c91a2cdf298cdb5bfe666a250a19ade1a7f SHA-256: 55cbc83990bfaa59e46b6fdb718b8322035ddd343903375726b03bc8dfd470ac
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 related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads indicates an attempt to execute malicious code upon opening the document. The embedded script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, although the specific script content is not detailed here. The benign reputation of one embedded URL does not negate the critical exploit finding.

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
373a10aa90a978dce71dda08dab9ec584e03b795e60ccc024ba9a679489746b6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80125 bytes

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