Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2c1dc7dc4f11586…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB
MD5: bc0dfd9862ceabbce1977945955a3945 SHA-1: ddf6b9cd816aa955f3ddb5ba504de21c78d65006 SHA-256: f2c1dc7dc4f11586a73f148349575531c6da673a943cbfa54f6e74bc6762ebc7
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicated by the 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' and 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristics. The embedded script is likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the script content itself was truncated and heavily obfuscated, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific actions. The presence of an embedded file further supports the payload delivery scenario.

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
8c4838dea476fccde22e8e94059a8c55cf5fe588a1801e926b6c1f51099de406		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101429 bytes

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