Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0a13f7610b771fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB
MD5: 6af499c5ec7bdd3171e71d785e59a81e SHA-1: 0f4ebdf4bff6bb353f812e2b9548ac9ac80d7592 SHA-256: b0a13f7610b771fb2d65baea18b5b56e1bae80ce0d7365df49c7913a8c490ad9
248 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that utilizes XFA (XML Forms Architecture) to deliver an exploit. Heuristics indicate the presence of heap spray and exploit code targeting CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is designed to trigger this exploit, leading to arbitrary code execution. The ClamAV detection name further confirms its malicious nature as an exploit agent.

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.
  • XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY
    PDF contains XFA script content with heap-spray or shellcode-like JavaScript markers such as large encoded word sequences, util.pack, large arrays, or spray variable names. This is a weaponised Adobe Reader exploit pattern, not a normal interactive form.
  • 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://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_pdf_script_0000023c.bin
878dd8621124b51c7ad2d109ca48b025c9fbc81527b5b61b9c3194bf0779b47c		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 87823 bytes

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