Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ccb0321b36e71a1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB
MD5: c7b1c4f8d040843284b9c2dc00b53615 SHA-1: 216ec4a57be0406e645f14ea5ef30d9092507b89 SHA-256: ccb0321b36e71a1e201685882cfe240ff28b146a529e96a82c8bf98ed10f4a47
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit for Adobe Reader. This indicates the file is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. No specific family could be identified, but the exploit and embedded script are strong indicators of malicious intent.

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
ad3c62f35d76ea81f82e4edd7184eac3854004f6ee32fdaec3c6cc66b483a974		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51285 bytes

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