Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbe728fc2f8b631b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.0 KB
MD5: 56a8d130ef7aac6559644607f2e75ca7 SHA-1: 8a55443640bd0e035c20d6e565d0ed0339629474 SHA-256: cbe728fc2f8b631b4a9999895429df6a2ab85b92ab21b90c93e3d248b8fdf8d0
248 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188 via XFA forms, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload, detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 and its extracted artifact as Js.Exploit.HTML-27, is responsible for executing the malicious code. The script likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload, although the exact mechanism is obfuscated.

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://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_00000238.bin
f82076f2fe5f756af966abd07ecda618e0a4ba887f6537c8d533454837624488		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 112897 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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