Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 932d897580d9ae21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB
MD5: 86eac218122accc3d2e5e135724e9167 SHA-1: 93a63949bb0f3d1a090585a4a74ba5b2847e49c4 SHA-256: 932d897580d9ae21dafc5868f8cb753634c212e4de3fd07ea4d7d48ff9a3c8d7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Link T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of embedded scripts and the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78' further confirm its malicious nature. The embedded URLs, though not directly malicious, are related to XFA specifications.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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
34680d4c72e9dc101660ea7b7b80e5f8ff64da16efcbae094b82e1ec3901d534		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 87955 bytes

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