Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acca0537a35f8c9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB
MD5: 5d46804bc825849dcc6f0f85181e36dd SHA-1: 473ef1690743d354b12529a897e63360816739b0 SHA-256: acca0537a35f8c9b977f5bbdcfd60e583f749a633b51a6512a72c694c47a8ed9
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Clickjacking T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Link

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The presence of embedded scripts and an embedded file further supports the malicious intent. The document body content is too truncated to provide further context on the lure.

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
4c11798b6420fd9014017a758ada4a9a9f7a9042c9a8e78f2e9b4981878805ba		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101612 bytes

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