Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e5dd49be453f972…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.6 KB
MD5: 1dd863006e71e4d7801910ba4071b38f SHA-1: c041884ef32ffe9f95ed31f71f234e47270c079a SHA-256: 9e5dd49be453f972ee569ed7d16fc313b2312c8482031971087611a40a7a0002
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to compromise the user's system upon opening. The XFA form structure is leveraged for this exploit. While the exact secondary payload is not visible, the exploit's nature suggests it's a downloader. No specific family could be identified.

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
0a3476e3c7be33806d26522dc88d1dba3f4da90448c4cdf202d1acc4d31840ff		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 57234 bytes

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