Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb418bcedcdb5902…

MALICIOUS

PDF

9.5 KB
MD5: 58f7fc73d234b8b8dca3d18e7c7b16d2 SHA-1: 748d9bccd7c5e7c2a95e842ea9e07b6a52778425 SHA-256: cb418bcedcdb5902891c2f5a91f718cca2376f0acf86e6ff8a51f28c72d31aa2
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1204.001 Malicious File: Malicious Link T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded URL further supports this attack vector. The specific exploit and embedded nature suggest a downloader or dropper functionality.

Heuristics 7

  • 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 risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
  • 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
  • AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON
    PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-locale-set/2.1/

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
c06dcd026a7ea0536b63e07ce688691b585339a3ab7ff59065e546b56308c7bb		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0xE68 85 bytes
embedded_file_obj0042.bin
dda0835df994b8be920f715db36452f6cee7bb42bbc9c897f878a7b298ba8e91		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 42 at offset 0xF1A 1029 bytes
embedded_file_obj0111.bin
eee55d34ae30b3b13506b6b594e371d0c0a7293003b7240dbffdba6919f0cef6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 111 at offset 0x1134 57122 bytes
embedded_file_obj0044.bin
3dd68f00f4fcb366a2a3a17c65cb2626eeddf5ea5713302d374310561d810169		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 44 at offset 0x207F 144 bytes
embedded_file_obj0045.bin
10c03f88a5f0a0833dc5b2c8ac295b3a3c6f65e23889eb8cc1dc6fe29bf7f275		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 45 at offset 0x212C 77 bytes

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