Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fc2c24824562a04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB
MD5: c37a53fdeabdd2ef4147ba9a3ea56392 SHA-1: 95afd88048ae187e74e8e2642708f6cabac68638 SHA-256: 7fc2c24824562a04002b641a3ef0f7b8f6c64f559d55b95cd0db1d89cf99d906
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

This PDF file leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA forms. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is designed to exploit this vulnerability, likely to download and execute a secondary stage payload. The presence of an embedded file further supports the malicious intent.

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
65f93c45c2e4afe37bd6b2fca9c1e21ca3ff583771f218c62dfb3056688be5f6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 79856 bytes

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