Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82ec78c21c535b76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: 93e792cd11ae4a28610b0363020e62a3 SHA-1: afae1c296c1913ff56560ba1ff51d88dae35e5b3 SHA-256: 82ec78c21c535b767a098b427b10c5c6f9c19eff09474d703b3b7879de3d0cfd
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that leverages an XFA form to trigger the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is indicative of a downloader or initial access mechanism. The presence of an embedded script and the specific exploit targeted suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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_00000384.bin
ba99b6cbf6c05e82b378b80fadd2c04c96397e0903cf92d6a9e3fa56cd0caaba		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x384 12276 bytes

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