Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd2bbdfbd54d409…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB
MD5: 3b0dd1669ba2b51b6166c29ff17f1689 SHA-1: 0bdcd923faf125cf5e7703a67ad45ab4ad5bf2fe SHA-256: afd2bbdfbd54d4094784869e4cf570d96dd57279e20752e3d643cf15eed67e2c
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 a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. An embedded script payload was also detected within the PDF stream, further indicating malicious intent. The embedded URL is likely benign as it points to a schema definition.

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_00000346.bin
f3e8b94fa5227ba52f231e81bd513cac7402d1234210f29c761cf4d4bd427a53		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x346 103477 bytes

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