Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb6e332cc0930014…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.4 KB
MD5: 5ca35bd9d67fc305e839fd6916afa281 SHA-1: 676458a768eb2205917c3e21fb206b5e0861ac4d SHA-256: fb6e332cc0930014e2ecfd73fc06429ae92ec9546276e3d66ecd6118500508b2
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image parsing. This indicates an attempt to deliver a malicious payload by leveraging a known exploit. The presence of embedded script payloads within the XFA form further supports this, suggesting the script is designed to execute the exploit or download a secondary stage. No specific family could be identified, but the attack pattern is consistent with PDF-based exploit delivery.

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
35b306631373a3f2e704bec5145b358f93c8371c3b0cf799ebe1b3706c2d6a39		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 101074 bytes

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