Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df6ee63c836970d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB
MD5: d08ed49ccc6e1fd02df3dc51e3bcd798 SHA-1: f5f0f563a9c74743bfa8f41acea56fe9c5fbdbd8 SHA-256: df6ee63c836970d38e07ce3c18bb4976cbc88a199212b71ff7f87c6309ca162f
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF processing. The critical heuristic firing indicates that the XFA payload was decoded from a raw stream, suggesting it contains executable code. The presence of embedded script payloads and XFA forms with executable scripts further supports the exploitation of this vulnerability to deliver a malicious payload. No specific family could be identified, but the attack pattern is consistent with exploit-laden documents.

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
5f922df35b6528bdf40cf4dd0f0dd74aa14de192f3168911cdba1dfa8d8c9926		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101181 bytes

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