Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d41ccc50e32c8aec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB
MD5: 3db2910f6bac444e4048b6d6c364f23f SHA-1: c0f6892d2c51d7f658b915cb98c03f06b20c9d23 SHA-256: d41ccc50e32c8aec8d20d6b6e7e91a1e7ddfbaca90977a362c96ce66cbf0c58d
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Link 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 be executed upon opening the document. This exploit likely leads to the download and execution of a second-stage payload, although the specific details of the payload are not available in the provided evidence.

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
8122987658a94a213b3d6176066cdc7fd79b1d2fe25732904bb09efcfd2ed72a		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80293 bytes

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