Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1d9c4f0c0059e8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB
MD5: b20e653f5aa9eb948ef799f49db03f92 SHA-1: fdba52e33038fbddab7e0f8371b30243ba82e4de SHA-256: a1d9c4f0c0059e8e1b773759899f60c2911490ac7bc54dd5d814862c26f6c8f9
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form with an embedded script, which is being exploited by CVE-2010-0188. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images, allowing for arbitrary code execution. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0.

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_0000034e.bin
9c0ddae48f805618eafb354974abce2db71d96b57d2baf679f1618f54f7ed21f		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34E 75452 bytes

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