Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da35f1e019857927…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB
MD5: fff42213f36a14afda9ac2b7a914f757 SHA-1: 918502ab2d9c9c6a0d3622d3fd042f637203b54b SHA-256: da35f1e019857927461275c2fe29e91173ae15f12a4da6da939590ef9492ddf5
208 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File 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. Additionally, it contains an embedded script payload that was detected by ClamAV as a JavaScript exploit. The embedded artifact is a PDF-embedded script, further supporting the exploit delivery mechanism. The URLs extracted are related to XFA but do not appear to be malicious themselves.

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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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
72fac357df6a8bf784e6d7a7310cdfa0efa77e77fa6f7954a28bb5f390091fc9
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 113395 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely