Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e863ab22cff0c4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB
MD5: 58b47dfd5dd17492a8caed4a873f3856 SHA-1: 4be54740c1aea903865ed4aa9156f24a72cf0928 SHA-256: 9e863ab22cff0c4c4d09e2c2b4d0c73265d2d27320290116bd04794057faa005
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, specifically targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. Heuristics indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, suggesting the exploit likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' further supports the malicious nature of the exploit.

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://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_pdf_script_00000288.bin
9fc86a426e6f372c295019c02ebdf2d1bed66bb6d56a23c00d03f541e234ce3e		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x288 80621 bytes

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