Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e9f009bac8ccd43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: df6f2cd2ab5f1511edb8f9083bc9c665 SHA-1: 7c23dacb3a1c91ea85ae2e6244b3f2278e8c6638 SHA-256: 9e9f009bac8ccd435ef9c82003027297fba77a4f0d4ced224fb18c647d4a2159
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload, approximately 12KB in size, is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA and embedded scripts strongly indicates a malicious intent to exploit the reader application.

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_00000384.bin
3b0b97241e9ee1c206f438f7dbe9cb9769859eb3c244c757144352dce7a32310		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x384 12276 bytes

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