Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be586df7764df315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.2 KB
MD5: 4313798996edcc4e3e7b98673ba0a859 SHA-1: 7d3f89cd1ca67ae3c507e8186ff0397df1b6066c SHA-256: be586df7764df315600e33b3c032ca814493a4c844757dd3fbe302c502e723b3
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form which is known to be a vector for exploits. Specifically, the 'CVE_2010_0188' heuristic indicates exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within Adobe Reader's XFA processing. An embedded script payload was also detected, suggesting the exploit likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but is not directly indicative of malicious infrastructure.

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_00000359.bin
5a9cc7c6be3d993775f91c02d750d60833bf8a66d5c9521afa68621752a93ac6		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 15885 bytes

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