Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3651203f9853571…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: b6b37ec1c449a4e7b62aecab59bd23dd SHA-1: 26a264bf0591ebdd1e6b91166a7303878cb5577a SHA-256: d3651203f9853571901b01bc854ed97a32d51a53f8761abde8995cb20621247f
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is designed to execute embedded scripts, which are then used to deliver a malicious payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded scripts strongly indicates an exploit attempt.

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_00000384.bin
daca794f6edb208847e7ee7d3014412559be708087ac105d38a667378ba75809
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x384 12276 bytes