Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297a4533214b23a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB
MD5: 9f210aeb2d3ca6ea0843be793780e2ff SHA-1: 6a00ac3a4617b35324843ba067cc94e38f64367f SHA-256: 297a4533214b23a6d1e914c5cb79a0393f5fd5dd84f922b5d540bbb59a732fc8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it is designed to deliver a malicious payload. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' further confirms its malicious nature. The exploit targets Adobe Reader, suggesting a user-initiated execution vector.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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
1b4fce0186809b91a9bb680b8bf9ee386b42582cd8a2991b9011176a8f63d052		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 43950 bytes

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