Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0fe380e2cb41033…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB
MD5: 47f7ef84c8ef28ce186f22c3defb3af7 SHA-1: aa908b3d1f4e47194d890fe2ad5eef00f5a3679f SHA-256: e0fe380e2cb41033f19f45d52b78b12b0d1d3960c8c1517d76380dff21531747
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data, which is known to be a vector for exploits. Specifically, the 'CVE_2010_0188' heuristic firing indicates exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' and 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' heuristics. No specific malware family could be identified, but the attack pattern is consistent with a targeted exploit delivery.

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
1bf9334e7c7b3e676f16cf68b4c306f6b0932cc17e21007cf487ac9021446603		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101541 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.