Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ade8146f19bcfea6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB
MD5: 7277aa5c6befc83016ecb47d38ee1a3e SHA-1: 716cff3b61915320b5237810a238ae9120039523 SHA-256: ade8146f19bcfea6b43c0075e41728b7db685ad8ae67ca8fe10b6b59c3b1419b
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing via Service T1566.003 Phishing: Spearphishing via Email

This PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF images. The heuristic firings indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, designed to leverage this exploit. The embedded file suggests a secondary stage payload is likely downloaded or executed.

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
c106b879ea035ddff5e7d9a5318e9b6d48a64c99a191b717a170e1868a898c8f		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101223 bytes

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