Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdf74afd0e7c46c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.0 KB
MD5: c6a0e413e449a7c9c9237ae111127d1b SHA-1: 309da3d1b44e2e4ccca253cd9e0ed137851387f1 SHA-256: cdf74afd0e7c46c3b92cc53f5db7eb60378360c5a98bc0486696c09d005cd419
248 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The file is a PDF document that contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) content, which is known to be a vector for exploits. Heuristics indicate the presence of heap spray and exploit code targeting CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded script payload within the XFA form is likely responsible for triggering this exploit, leading to arbitrary code execution. No specific malware family was identified, but the attack pattern is consistent with exploit-based document delivery.

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.
  • XFA JavaScript heap-spray exploit code critical PDF_XFA_HEAP_SPRAY
    PDF contains XFA script content with heap-spray or shellcode-like JavaScript markers such as large encoded word sequences, util.pack, large arrays, or spray variable names. This is a weaponised Adobe Reader exploit pattern, not a normal interactive form.
  • 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://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_0000023b.bin
18cacc4c878266d587e674bb357dee21689a106c86f60c358d4aec518caf464a		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23B 112929 bytes

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