Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcecc569e3e28a8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB
MD5: cdaa2a24ba8b5e19d3334ec15718de5e SHA-1: fe2c6f67d44615546cf4283e389e1347e3e7e5d6 SHA-256: bcecc569e3e28a8f75007e74a0c9c92e2a949a3804ef17f424d511f9fcf2fd08
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded script and is detected as malicious by ClamAV, specifically flagging it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2010_0188 indicates that the file exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA forms. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is likely responsible for executing the exploit.

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
9e787b989e38ddd0acbbb1f4fc7cec225203c2ca55b608ed077066f894f448f9		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51455 bytes

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