Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 921ab5a949685fa7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB
MD5: 1888d3765ec920072819af759815c431 SHA-1: a084b68bafe72f968db02d77171eba55efdd3697 SHA-256: 921ab5a949685fa7a539474a4df1f2f9389059b88931cb03b96881b407ae4eb5
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The embedded script payload within the XFA form further supports the malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of embedded URLs, though mostly benign or unknown, is consistent with exploit delivery mechanisms.

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
807fa2678ff738a94184adecbe0e4f57d256d5b193cf9bf34ad8eb8a0d9f7e61		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101601 bytes

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