Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94808ed7bf56d2fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: 241062ccb8816b6f6713402bc5f0c54f SHA-1: 0de3103c7a8e206c116d8f4dd6be4affb2633bf9 SHA-256: 94808ed7bf56d2fbf1f0b7095d1777a70f3d2db9810dd7a110fe3226db397471
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: Malicious PDF T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to deliver a malicious payload. The embedded script, although not fully detailed, is associated with the XFA exploit and likely contributes to the execution of the payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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_00000359.bin
6c085fccdffe9f8a133f129bb07b253a0e9cae74769c745c69c2287da1899b2f		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12185 bytes

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