Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c96630cb939e491c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB
MD5: e964ddaeb31da2b29a16e917225e4fd4 SHA-1: 0a468724b04988e127b8f93c8b00b2eecc6e1d23 SHA-256: c96630cb939e491c7c3f50e806c6224d85a9f397c79e241a58206b4c8b7573a3
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. The embedded XFA form contains executable script, indicating an attempt to leverage this vulnerability for code execution. The script itself is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs suggests a potential download or redirection mechanism. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of a known PDF vulnerability.

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
4603cdebf85c43a20d6aeeb1d94bb602b4126c87efb487ff4160060a2da7436c		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101662 bytes

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