PDF malware analysis — malicious · c37a9b2dedef8c80

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB

MD5: a6c7619a4fbd2e2ecc5b23fe2d38a145 SHA-1: 6bae611b897ea3649a0fcb2a20d30303c1af0829 SHA-256: c37a9b2dedef8c808ffd3534654183d736dfcee0fbd743111145abe32d9614da

136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

This PDF document exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF parsing. The heuristic firings indicate the presence of an embedded script payload within an XFA form, designed to leverage this exploit. The embedded file is likely the secondary payload. The document body is truncated and does not provide further context on the ultimate goal.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `3a0d7d5faf1a5ad24c3ec20be1ddad7cac0cc85606539a5a6a26a9d4733c8266`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	101529 bytes

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