Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7519107f21b2575…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB
MD5: 957a1b6e8cff0dbc23b3406441001c30 SHA-1: 03b701decc4c60668240e64284f639c1fce4d601 SHA-256: b7519107f21b2575c5c324e78451f0325feb46705de27b7100557332e56d6e81
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. The PDF contains an embedded script payload within an XFA form, which is designed to trigger the exploit. This indicates the file's primary purpose is to deliver a malicious payload via a known Adobe Reader vulnerability.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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
8e2519b8c9a52dea063b04e4eb08913c7ecc36f651021b428bddf4e25a51e8d7		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 76954 bytes

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