Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba562e7b1c38bb61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB
MD5: 5c575b5697873f6d3a52d33d90fc0fca SHA-1: 3df696e4d80e6180df0256c3729d701745b3de75 SHA-256: ba562e7b1c38bb61fcceb61eb4ac97c8cccb90ef824b15f77d776af91230a705
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution. The PDF also contains an embedded script payload, further indicating malicious intent. The embedded script likely downloads and executes 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
b6ab59c52f61ce6a90eec7765adc685bb712f9679ae4288e20efb270352218e1		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101216 bytes

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