Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89544ded29355510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB
MD5: f6ae2bf25542bb72758a14b7bcaff3e6 SHA-1: 8be2f5f11fbc2c553da20df1fadb7c7e36bf7662 SHA-256: 89544ded293555102c8e143fa05dd7fedbc2c9e6eca3b37bb5838a6694fe64eb
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains embedded XFA forms and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it is designed to compromise systems running vulnerable versions of Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload within the XFA form likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary stage. While specific family attribution is not possible, the exploit and embedded script point to a malicious downloader.

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
abe20837ddb43710776031253e0f41f1261a7f70b7b21acad790fd964277ab01		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80435 bytes

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