Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b292db6177fb80d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB
MD5: 3338a067267c4672ad0c66a57f7d4dbd SHA-1: 3b33329d3920a9db915a83d93a5ce6ea215043cb SHA-256: b292db6177fb80d5e714e4b11d8ed27894253fcb61021f6735b1ebbe57de5d5d
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The critical heuristic firing indicates that the sample attempts to leverage this exploit. The presence of embedded script payloads within the XFA form further supports the malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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
e12afefdc4200e0e184ef52acc95aae793f58dc2addf9cb4fa60dabd17c483ab		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101231 bytes

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