Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab946643aacc1e77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB
MD5: 9a8383979715d7e80790b6df4363c456 SHA-1: 7d2de1f27e39f910176b85802af74c999bc6deda SHA-256: ab946643aacc1e770257905ba5be6514ef86a92471a398a7b974d44b9b232ac9
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit for Adobe Reader. This indicates the document is designed to leverage a known vulnerability to execute malicious code. The embedded script likely facilitates the download and execution of a second-stage payload, although its exact function is obscured by the exploit context.

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
113941c9695c9416ed4a12be792376cea256148edff3644fde953dd99bd00789		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 70158 bytes

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