Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd3f110648cacd3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: 3afc4f5a98cc1b388b0b305e8ec84fba SHA-1: c9dcf589510955ad53315efe407fb3af2af40657 SHA-256: bd3f110648cacd3f007620bcf1195b2411d79f28a2b4d618869b9ecc522d8967
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to decompress and execute a payload from a stream within the PDF. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' is likely the secondary payload. The exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, which is commonly used to download and run further malicious software.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c581002373b573f8ab13f79017d79b78f7527a9ad82a73e5e5d5d88df0450b1f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9531 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).