Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3dc9def0f003934…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 41359414e1147206b82c19ad42d994d5 SHA-1: 0e16d4a133e300fd39b423576942ced45e2faccb SHA-256: a3dc9def0f003934a2b0d558b1f20ad38706582bde39bf65e63706b4a022c323
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. An embedded script payload was also detected, further indicating malicious intent. The script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

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
7998b1ffd0981f81b8b9ac517625e6a3cb37804bf146c77fe02c3e403962e175		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x384 12324 bytes

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