Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d5500f73b1ba15c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.1 KB
MD5: 5c45e9f9f3eae5c34d02cc1f27889932 SHA-1: cc1c4063685f6c6c25171c52906173d68ef19bfd SHA-256: 3d5500f73b1ba15c35eb0d2fe2d9392db97a3a7a3d189500ca731c1f55dc2fe0
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The XFA form also contains executable script, further supporting the exploitation vector. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the exploit payload.

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://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000354.bin
8f3bbc4f7965c2dc9af6450774fb26c2a585568c523afbe61bec8fb745064677		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x354 15752 bytes

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