Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a15ead7c4ffc6ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB
MD5: e553b5389dd4c3d605659eba9b46763c SHA-1: 04e061dd5b9b17ab4c9e1223c00744dabf73adc9 SHA-256: 9a15ead7c4ffc6ef26292941b248fc45ed4b2355722742e672c2ea8185145f25
198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is indicative of an attempt to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are related to XFA schema and could be used in a broader context of social engineering.

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-93 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93
  • 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
293991ff987268633cc72afab91bdc76c02af5cc7d6201d30c49e50ebd4d0050		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 82744 bytes

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