Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbe0a0c5c71856c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.0 KB
MD5: 97c7e01ec71b1d58f1f2609af4084fbd SHA-1: ff266ddc26054e1215fcf663314fa4e4032ee7c4 SHA-256: fbe0a0c5c71856c5842b98a377602fee5a7a8273d4a7b3797d444e7094534690
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution. The embedded script likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload, although its exact function is obscured. The presence of an embedded file further suggests a multi-stage attack.

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
3aedb1c47df5bd00be94ee07e101e51770f78fad5bb1845e871cc6e62a573bec		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6 63803 bytes

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