Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be95925954610edc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: 36cd34f19b9345a0bccc679b1d82fc81 SHA-1: 077683c723e993fc21aa7a9fe967e9e2ce7ffae4 SHA-256: be95925954610edcb4321f86303a9386392b092cd71a69ef4f959476d189a4f8
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. The heuristic firings strongly indicate the use of this specific vulnerability for initial compromise.

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
3aceae1d8e2d930af44688e323a40faf5af7266b94639e637afbf05361691cfb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9858 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).