Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6dc780c780eeaab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.2 KB
MD5: d73959158e70370da5b87ba90e60ce64 SHA-1: 929577f665e21092bc45631056dca3574a746edf SHA-256: b6dc780c780eeaab55c72ae42ba43337cda1661d65093337bbdc9b0be84eed86
248 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling. An embedded script payload was also detected within the XFA form, indicating the file's intent to execute malicious code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document's structure.

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
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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_00000374.bin
b7c612e09d578ee4a2d267102488de02512c3de4ad60c291615cb49373b803ab
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x374 12764 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36756
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely