Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96cad02fd4d51ab2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.3 KB
MD5: 83417c1a13459451b2ca212547ad3f59 SHA-1: 7089b70a098bd3e8095bde4b5ba0040fd79bb432 SHA-256: 96cad02fd4d51ab2290371351ec8f2751bd94f487b8b1e3afc46a5831912b9fa
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form which is exploited using CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a malicious payload embedded within the XFA script. The embedded script is detected as a critical heuristic, indicating its malicious nature. The presence of an embedded URL further supports the delivery mechanism.

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
31dd1d552dc2c0aef3eab6a1f9b81e92fce9391dadd25c859d402cfdcf6a4f55		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x346 104018 bytes

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