Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a623e3dabb121cc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB
MD5: a53eba405bb04057d785658905e35d72 SHA-1: b6865cb99d32b520663365513832adcd1709d025 SHA-256: a623e3dabb121cc818098c7b07c59dd7702ebaa02f0587394b20b34b0c074f62
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicated by the 'CVE_2010_0188' and 'PDF_XFA_SCRIPT' heuristic firings. The embedded script payload further suggests malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The file's SHA256 hash is included as a primary IOC.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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_file_obj0008.bin
504a19c48e93eb650e93a2e7a5ad2bc71e2f235df00791abde89bf47a62a3dc9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 43917 bytes

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