Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29ccfba4c15607df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: fe3037dc964a1516af2dd58ecb74ac2f SHA-1: 0176efa5cf8be6df8f4271fb0b7d271e53dbbc7d SHA-256: 29ccfba4c15607dfce12479ddc88b5683baff208b320471088f60b3fd019fa40
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded script payload, although not fully detailed, further supports the malicious intent. The file is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0.

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.
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000359.bin
b438cedcfbbabd8245c2e53086111edb18d3717ad92c033a7cf08e6eb9168cd6
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12192 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).