Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7fe3dfbf2b24e4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: 23c3a3bf8c8b66ce5d58ec61ca27ad57 SHA-1: f944b9cd072652c7e2b16a78d4e8c93176c8b222 SHA-256: d7fe3dfbf2b24e4ffc70fda5804f27bd059ab4710195e216860023e2ab844058
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' is also suspicious.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0041.bin
0c737828fa35a3119f7ce13fbec78671725c9a7114c90c70e2423d3b419afef8
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9812 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).