Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4e7dd7b372c425e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB
MD5: 93a369bcb3c44001f97a57ce9e6ceff7 SHA-1: f1109bc29150a68f91a9d32db73d857705afd402 SHA-256: d4e7dd7b372c425e03d84be5ced87e4c29a5bb881e42138dba39035bfd99cf51
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, which targets Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. The heuristic firings indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, strongly suggesting an exploit attempt. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

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_00000288.bin
b4b14e24607e6b82854aef517f141ef96adb964b82bf4073c1456c0357142f10		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x288 81091 bytes

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