Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae4ff069ca30dde6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB
MD5: c3896b781ebd1b7fd445b0d6750082b5 SHA-1: 36f6011a46d55306bf15eed9eb54fe509edc21b2 SHA-256: ae4ff069ca30dde657aa1c3122d031f4b15ba0b6fa6c1a0641223620f84af0cd
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, leveraging XFA forms to execute a payload. The embedded script within the XFA form is indicative of an attempt to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the specific URL is not directly extractable from the provided evidence. The presence of XFA and the specific CVE points to a classic exploit delivery mechanism.

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
7dcb196b5fb42b5f5ae5d0c5bee576525e7e1f3e2737825f1a495686b658210e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80133 bytes

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