Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee763e017ead2421…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.6 KB
MD5: d3d19e8150f4b4edc16d1a2e61a96f4b SHA-1: 5646b28998d8f503c92d2e7a8744e37fe9e68038 SHA-256: ee763e017ead2421ad298ee077d03a1a0c4bd6aac89b91d041fb38c6affa8648
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to be used for delivering secondary payloads. No specific script content was extracted, but the presence of an embedded file and the exploit heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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
e9075f73b7a3770967b55c58a7a2742c0031cc7575e9ef2ca3d6dcb4ab40a227		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 66470 bytes

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