Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c847c13a64088b1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: 4e0767380523ce6a79cbdaf6c3f9786a SHA-1: 07f6167c1eddfcb961e5ca630f175940e982815a SHA-256: c847c13a64088b1d023a2a22bdf8de8b3d94cd2fdeb31c1d88ab39e2ae4414a0
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload, detected by multiple heuristics, is likely responsible for executing the exploit. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit 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
bbbe81830a6462ac6046a09e4e7156c06edf61d4beb358a703a5a77a6b305e35
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12221 bytes