Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1ad1175a3e45eea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB
MD5: 1ebee5f29f2cca16d2ff1d9312d9677d SHA-1: f3363701f8218f47003692accb14ac34cf68166b SHA-256: a1ad1175a3e45eea1373a296966e7e113774eece40e06228fea948953efd881e
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload, although not fully detailed, is indicative of malicious intent. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The exploit targets a known vulnerability for client-side code execution.

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_00000286.bin
e711eee677164cee193689a2f9b0367ea6941b6f18198d54b91dbd40afd7d5f3		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x286 76864 bytes

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