Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 841ceda5ba802368…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB
MD5: 95c885935cb091dec9c3e50e9604cfea SHA-1: a40884198ed39c2ca7cd2fc7ff5f1be21fd2e4cb SHA-256: 841ceda5ba8023681ead44bfdcf9623d155f66cf0ba120120c5421a6eed8ffa4
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The PDF contains an embedded script payload, indicating it's designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The embedded script likely facilitates the download and execution of a second-stage payload, though the exact mechanism is not fully detailed in the provided heuristics.

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
72e09adecb5e72b4e68576fad678d77227b5082b1722a1b7ad94bdb19a9c068b		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80232 bytes

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