Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94ba2b379468be85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB
MD5: ae16c31be9f2889fd4b56a4ad9e3ae27 SHA-1: 0018b11ef769346ffd05cdfd4a629e38928f92b3 SHA-256: 94ba2b379468be850d9fe85f2f66f55aea3f09d468a58a68d5fb7aac3a1da7e9
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, leveraging an XFA form and embedded script to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, indicated by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic. The presence of XFA forms and the specific CVE exploit strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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
c85199cc2a67cae708b5f6bf4d2303918b0265dd80bc10459c1e0d811ea3fc94		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80120 bytes

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