Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cee6bac1082c56c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB
MD5: 85344cd138e67eb501f1dee10192c8e1 SHA-1: ce678cbb3ccdc8b780b7d161b99fe1e633288ee3 SHA-256: 7cee6bac1082c56ceb3b444bf74bd638fa895778a21aa2a48c5f4f9a4bcc81f6
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of embedded scripts within the XFA form further supports this attack vector. The embedded URLs are related to XFA specifications and do not appear to be malicious themselves.

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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_pdf_script_00000288.bin
33b68c7e85ea704848def3cf2e19c0739298f621cb3cbab2ac78e3dbabe7a6b7		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x288 80760 bytes

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