Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b20e53c6ef28099…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: d0d6f1cb49d97b99278f03070a645af5 SHA-1: 06a9c2fc8451cd8dc5e53d50bf02e643f857a8b5 SHA-256: 3b20e53c6ef280992ff9701573b5f8acc27ad66e8b37bff51514467d82491e83
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The file is a PDF document that leverages an XFA form to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. An embedded script payload was detected within a raw stream, indicating the likely execution of a secondary malicious component. The presence of XFA and the specific CVE strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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.
  • 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
6246ff500f7017971271197a73486644c1b7735446ae4641a51fbebc97060ff2
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12286 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).