Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 216111d8d91fd154…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB
MD5: e15a224ae981b233697ebeec7df0f667 SHA-1: af7f12db724d27e57cbb5552099a8bcbd9eaa8c1 SHA-256: 216111d8d91fd1546aaa8798a5222de36ea59884726db584a6e114a411c5f483
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The presence of an embedded script payload further supports malicious intent. The script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, although its exact functionality is obscured by obfuscation. The embedded URLs are related to XFA but are not directly indicative of malicious activity.

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.
  • 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_00000238.bin
1490920e330a7b6a79246b66645e363d292ad426476200723e33783ffb34769a		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113397 bytes

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