Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e230d113a1b2656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.2 KB
MD5: 2022c81f746e404889ea224c221fa75e SHA-1: 9e375b22cfa8db9c5249ca3dd046c10163ca9e7f SHA-256: 2e230d113a1b2656e22b85ca21c500dc24504635b3badcde3c199ce77208cf8a
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1204 User Execution

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates this PDF exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The presence of an embedded script payload further supports this, suggesting the exploit is used to execute malicious code. ClamAV also detected this as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The embedded script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, although its exact function is not fully discernible from the provided evidence.

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
620de30e9d1eaf978bad924f5996aaf71c70f8d9c4b4962b9cf6838b7396994e		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113149 bytes

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