Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e40db3c45da56f45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: 8c9da20badacf4862fdc152e4e0d1aa8 SHA-1: 0eccdc5166125cbe2188465c83910c4abf2c19c2 SHA-256: e40db3c45da56f45c19f9de647c57fd60ac07f6c1606f658ba791c930135afff
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1204 User Execution: Malicious File

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF parsing. The heuristic firings indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, which is characteristic of exploit delivery. The embedded file suggests a secondary stage, though its contents are not detailed here. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of this vulnerability upon opening the PDF.

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
f048eb990964d2a8c8e2a0c94b963fc6d632df398509bcaf0e410d5aba8ad4b0		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101485 bytes

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