Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3b5af2a59a6519f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 9cd09745662c25e8bea0535450be6cac SHA-1: e35d9b220b664cb56e9fba0c6994fae972ef04c8 SHA-256: e3b5af2a59a6519fd57f9fff50aab134bc8612dbb42aebf4f6ddc1b4ab1ba141
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF. This exploit is designed to execute a malicious payload, likely embedded within the PDF. The presence of XFA forms and embedded script markers strongly indicates an attempt to leverage this known vulnerability for initial compromise. No specific 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
a465e2def18b1b035f18264d67f7a9369cccb9eaf724ff4ad4adfe5a74b847a4		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101483 bytes

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