Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a3fab64d7970b50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB
MD5: 0396a5afa7c4e98b477689125bc9753c SHA-1: 3ad6fcdda0d12541d8ca9440de122797dbf77a6e SHA-256: 8a3fab64d7970b5060dec66d7faa2f9060a18bb225dc8551a2c21e4edb2b5ee4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded scripts and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This indicates the file is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening. The embedded file and script payload markers further support this conclusion. The specific exploit used suggests a targeted attack aimed at users with vulnerable Adobe Reader versions.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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_file_obj0008.bin
0f9a60efce6f6a7e142cd9f792580cde335146aa4b8c6087f6bc07db243db4d2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 91317 bytes

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