Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c14a56a153ba0b4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB
MD5: 29b7317c0aef005f3be25b3337e090c9 SHA-1: 0995557c67b8c780c611b509df6dafa11f97d904 SHA-256: c14a56a153ba0b4dbfc7a4b9429bd2d66f97af2282d51e66588e629024834fe8
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. The critical heuristic firing indicates that the XFA payload was decoded from a raw stream, and a high-confidence heuristic confirms executable script content within the XFA form. This script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although the specific script content was truncated and could not be fully analyzed. The embedded URLs are related to XFA schemas and are confirmed benign.

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
11da94c03435d3f45a691fff0880f4127cb2713e13258ebaa9ebcf00a458691d		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101107 bytes

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