Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e39d38965e9e73e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.7 KB
MD5: 4080ee11329b75ee19aa432a420ce564 SHA-1: 0f3a6f153849ae4735116d465ce98ebd71665e06 SHA-256: e39d38965e9e73e8e9d9f043482a0e7a4b255cf3e0c7492ace8ebfe89a86425c
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is indicative of a downloader or dropper mechanism. While the exact nature of the second-stage payload is not discernible from the provided evidence, the exploit and embedded script strongly suggest malicious intent.

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
df11e4849d51c1a7b69df9caff36b97143b2cb7f60febff2162846436e75b810		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 53268 bytes

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