Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c47d31634cd104c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.0 KB
MD5: 48fe0097f1ab2e42b13852956ad8d21a SHA-1: e9de59a83c1e880a983aa3ecc000723633575138 SHA-256: 4c47d31634cd104cb4d1a0a8a5ec91646f729f1d96aba4842fd103309c7d6e6d
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The embedded script payload, detected by heuristics, is likely responsible for executing the exploit. The presence of an embedded URL, though not malicious in reputation, is noted as part of the document structure.

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_0000034e.bin
debd4a33948d6a3b6e6481d656397aa5a1536ce4610acc29ec14789842518e0b		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34E 15701 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.