Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f54ee303481a8db3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.8 KB
MD5: 3f36db71c9598cadd9bb1f0729caf025 SHA-1: 4ae412b61f04c4da6ab106308a25652a9d540059 SHA-256: f54ee303481a8db3eace6d7102477b9522adcfbd00c0b1bfa2a1e9b70a888900
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is a PDF document that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to be used for arbitrary code execution. While no specific script content was directly readable, the presence of XFA forms and embedded script payloads indicates an attempt to deliver a malicious payload. The embedded URLs are likely related to the XFA form structure and do not appear to be directly malicious.

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
2ad6791a55e258c4f9f9e020107237071ebbcad2c02a7a49d1bc8e6c799e1ce9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 66654 bytes

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