Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b7c93fe346af662…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB
MD5: 4722f39d0ab223741623e45207bfb10d SHA-1: d6a89cc67ed4c82b56e5db60a5100a6f9bcda80a SHA-256: 7b7c93fe346af6620d2c1c8d4a3bb27527ddf928b38e26afede0b0cad8ca068e
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is embedded within an XFA form and is designed to execute arbitrary code. No specific malware family was identified, but the exploit's nature suggests a downloader or initial access mechanism.

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
962d958085c066e342d18258ba978b6196356db5b35339efd55110d5447ad693		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101103 bytes

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