Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d39f603683d4ec0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB
MD5: e3895ab504ed7f4bca5b33931df05300 SHA-1: 8e5a90678dd7195fb499591bf5770d8b894857e5 SHA-256: d39f603683d4ec0b034bb86ae00569ca8174eb8ed31cb7b69d875ba394ffa06d
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload, identified by PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD and PDF_XFA_SCRIPT, is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing text, but the presence of embedded scripts and the exploit technique strongly suggest a malicious intent.

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://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_00000238.bin
425a165af8c6d0223d715beb35cdedfd2b98216827534bed4a32fbd7389f9e35		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113389 bytes

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