Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd1019d16719651d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB
MD5: fab688158813aeae6a811e905815f7c4 SHA-1: 95c9106f03490377e662514ede384e561388dbfc SHA-256: cd1019d16719651dd0ccb7aa1855a0461b91e81950e7f13fb33cc506c4a68f19
248 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that utilizes XFA forms and exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. It contains an embedded script payload that was detected by ClamAV as 'Js.Exploit.HTML-29'. This indicates the PDF is designed to deliver and execute malicious code, likely a second-stage payload, by leveraging a known vulnerability in PDF rendering software.

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_0000023c.bin
9a455e150a80be6672c810781fb2d6689d911ed5d07af5d12830bd3266eb2d69		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 91147 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-29
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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