Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb8fa592a10095d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB
MD5: 0f1aac0b4605f83a9b3d7c67da01c47f SHA-1: f7c279283f00c59c8363500ceb2a97b59b13c6e7 SHA-256: eb8fa592a10095d3626e12f67f03d4039e1d2811778e69b35b711eb288fa7868
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, as suggested by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93' ClamAV detection. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93
  • 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
cea7c706a2d05c794fd79218a0f800f20b6769e9bcbab1ddf5946ec21ebccd23		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 51446 bytes

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