Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eda23791bb5fd620…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB
MD5: a69429b085e77a62bbcc42234e5ac66a SHA-1: 06642644414def5d76cf2679db496d7e90dc7c0f SHA-256: eda23791bb5fd620a06a0c651fe0f7da9df772eb6a8375a781f7bd6124c3f48e
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data, which is known to be a vector for exploits. Specifically, the 'CVE_2010_0188' heuristic indicates the exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA. The presence of embedded script payloads within the XFA form further supports this, suggesting the script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URLs, while not directly malicious, are part of the XFA structure.

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
bb4adf5a1abab8fc13a699b4deedaa59b331277bc403fd3e0efedefba2ddcb76		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101511 bytes

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