Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40a4bf6646655e6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.3 KB
MD5: b990556d78c0021392395a092ffcc89b SHA-1: e6d5d0914bd8de68a9046fd4d068c644049e253e SHA-256: 40a4bf6646655e6d48ff7e2a6f333088c0b1e653550228a8e8438f7ca94ac2b2
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is likely responsible for executing the exploit, leading to arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or a secondary payload delivery mechanism.

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_00000359.bin
f05b64f63d3c9dd97ce6b1f05af8e8b2371cfd24733f740616855668286cebbc		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 15926 bytes

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