Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9cd41a292b6bde2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB
MD5: ceebab2480269f76dcffb8231fa1b271 SHA-1: a06d42cd4db5afca434082dc5a2d0f4a236d899a SHA-256: b9cd41a292b6bde2168d445375ec3174b7920cf54ed4f0f9029a35530466a08a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component through XFA forms. The critical heuristic firings indicate that the XFA form contains executable script, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded file and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

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
1d903832f88145aee1471f5b52b6b9a5d26fa416bb94bcfac7d2872ecf11fea2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 95815 bytes

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