Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95cc7dfa0898e0a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.2 KB
MD5: 816634d40ff26cd8ec088b44de95be7f SHA-1: b2b7d9f31484f7d9bd383f8bf9b658e6a9f6e427 SHA-256: 95cc7dfa0898e0a9ac52f80c239ed96a2023d4ceee0c789c4ff1357b1d76f914
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The XFA form structure further supports this, suggesting the document is designed to deliver and execute malicious code via this vulnerability. No specific family could be identified, but the exploit mechanism is clear.

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_00000346.bin
c0228ca9b97a6d0de8dae4cff0a166ad9d5f48cb14b3cea44862fc8f13d342df		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x346 103966 bytes

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