Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a441612e410bafb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: 0b233f830f3440b1cda1cb759a5d6f5e SHA-1: 7539ab253f1063f7483f11af996c3c6c880b703b SHA-256: a441612e410bafb13dc596af51ffae354610198c48c4841c80b1cf551ff0854f
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. An embedded script payload was also detected within the PDF stream. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, although its exact functionality is obscured by the PDF structure. The presence of the XFA exploit and embedded script strongly indicates malicious intent.

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_00000359.bin
0c8082d4772869a5741449436a5e4aebbbbd127432c550b9ae2676025d6cb13a		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12209 bytes

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