Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e1e6159bee8362a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB
MD5: ea095ca6be426a6a27cf6318f2c899ad SHA-1: e7afe9f0f4171d34667a3aa1464e5d3bb4aac04c SHA-256: 1e1e6159bee8362a7686036bf5dde11fbe74d018827475acc475e9b01465683e
250 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious PDF T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA forms. This exploit is designed to perform a heap spray and execute arbitrary code. The embedded script within the XFA form is the primary mechanism for this exploit, indicating a malicious PDF designed to compromise the user's system upon opening.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY
    PDF contains XFA script content with heap-spray or shellcode-like JavaScript markers such as large encoded word sequences, util.pack, large arrays, or spray variable names. This is a weaponised Adobe Reader exploit pattern, not a normal interactive form.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • 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.
  • 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_pdf_script_0000023c.bin
fad9e7b34cbc5f486dcd42016cca29ff05be796ffd86c2af2b5c93167bb38258		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 91292 bytes

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