Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43c46f7213e7f4b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB
MD5: e9ec9580df843b2c59e7c71454faab56 SHA-1: 2c7932cab908c95d11869fbf757493ab8de6d2ab SHA-256: 43c46f7213e7f4b5aa63af007c94eddff48f6be782b817b286182aa9aa48f198
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicated by the 'CVE_2010_0188' heuristic firing. The embedded script payload further confirms the malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage 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_00000346.bin
730146fb32b4bfb186143944defd49db92a2b455594ebffd4c9e2bf6e4589416		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x346 103836 bytes

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