Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d13fefcca0066116…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.3 KB
MD5: f8372b8505a4b05b92382b7b347c9a8a SHA-1: efa48faf9617902e8328973f090a2a248dc61ba7 SHA-256: d13fefcca0066116336dd936bf18e4576c4851a56ef0b8cc710a839ef600adc1
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing to achieve code execution. An embedded script payload was detected within the XFA form, indicating the likely intent to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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
66ee7f5d9cdc14d1a4f1a0fcc6684aed05c038e16304b63191d18ce31637fcc5		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 15942 bytes

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