Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96e222f4e2414319…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB
MD5: ce2a15ef7ec8fefead421faaac3c7b00 SHA-1: 018c4aaac1d7fa7838fa3565ae561d61be722565 SHA-256: 96e222f4e241431912ab1118c7efdd035262298149f0fc9a5338d5bb04e2c32e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

This PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF images. The heuristic firings indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, designed to be executed upon opening the document. The ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0.

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
cd4c9b828a2d1e5c57c172c0ae49650154e65ec783b35561dbc42855bb34bc9e		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51105 bytes

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