Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d82c340bc372ca79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.1 KB
MD5: 165f27e295a171beaf7cc323ec3174ad SHA-1: a9c11dcd80b23465af16b02a883abb8e1064e333 SHA-256: d82c340bc372ca79e6651428c08539fd15434f2e00ca7b30b1586e9b2b2fbc35
248 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that leverages XFA (XML Forms Architecture) to execute JavaScript. Critical heuristics indicate the presence of heap spray and exploit code targeting CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit code is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, although the specific payload and its destination are not directly extractable from the provided evidence. The embedded URLs are related to XFA schema definitions and do not appear to be malicious themselves.

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_0000023d.bin
907a2d664b0d75193bfcb0b46b7aafdbfd80f5bd1069179a96f8a0177488b708		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23D 113053 bytes

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