Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b8d458d7042e6c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB
MD5: dceeb4072680201869bd8b5ecff7fc8b SHA-1: 8d921fbd663db3c122a58fe7710ad55c8d4835d3 SHA-256: 7b8d458d7042e6c30d83b9b6e75c6da688cb2a081b213b6143e6449794e845de
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF processing. The embedded script payload within the XFA form indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code. This is consistent with a malicious PDF designed to download and execute a secondary payload.

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
37ac39df72d2c90d339d5ed5ddd6c0b18bef7d453bf2e906a8028d3172a5834c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101231 bytes

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