Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb04c247c7be6852…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB
MD5: 180c10d11222b0c30eca847b4f389ba6 SHA-1: 6715cda190936d20d13f3a21abb288ac6c113fb2 SHA-256: eb04c247c7be6852ddba27bd9141db6416eecd855dff3ec48836e8b7192ab65e
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The PDF file contains embedded XFA (XML Forms Architecture) content, which is known to be a vector for exploits. Specifically, the 'CVE_2010_0188' heuristic firing indicates the exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA images. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, a common technique for initial access and further system compromise. The presence of embedded files and scripts strongly suggests a malicious intent, likely to deliver further malware.

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
4e1e9f594c8fbc42e107d58970a50609136272be9c0037cda0391bfb2cc054f6		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101257 bytes

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