Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c2b9993ae834ad2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: ff1ca05ee074c63578bfd768c3153844 SHA-1: 06df16c32c30aa32b426b30e3ac8dc16b1de3a2b SHA-256: 8c2b9993ae834ad2d30812dc02bb7a565ac085595bc2548fc132b367e084d539
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit likely leads to the execution of arbitrary code. The PDF also contains embedded file objects and URLs, which are common in exploit delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the critical heuristic indicates a direct exploit attempt.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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
42788db957c419ce49c441dd5d9ebb1a286ca9ae10d4588812ec921e8b813fb2
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101458 bytes