Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e585a3e2095ec8cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB
MD5: b586f908444069a5968110b10aa3d9ae SHA-1: 1386e7fb5f654444c87a95c88f8ac9ed8c1661b3 SHA-256: e585a3e2095ec8cc8a19f62a6d2113c6400784ebff30899aa7c4559b14681da6
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image parsing. The heuristic firings indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, which is designed to trigger the exploit. The embedded file is likely the second-stage payload. No specific family could be identified, but the exploit vector is clear.

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
9c01be2af57c3172a0783fa0a0738babed3e114d75a4bf9ea3cf2289841ff596		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 80989 bytes

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