Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 917e75c6ea688c78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.0 KB
MD5: f4741511d63edc78c7bd0849c2b3bdaa SHA-1: aaf3d97f0e06628d65f670c28fa32e904e53ac7f SHA-256: 917e75c6ea688c7862f98109a5abfaa615ae4015d662f45d7d76b0286e9170c1
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. The embedded file and script suggest a downloader or exploit delivery mechanism. The primary attack vector is likely through a malicious PDF attachment designed to exploit this known vulnerability.

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
f5d89047c2e1d6e85220f4cd750dc5e53b4cd369483e6cc9b3ca8186ba55e05f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 66836 bytes

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