Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd610023abf8cdaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: 7aab27b5e1b7ea389cfd9c3de58549b8 SHA-1: 58b3b83175fc9e34ed2685154f0aaea91d14db6e SHA-256: dd610023abf8cdaf34ca009aca5f76d1156898a7fffc3dba078c7491379990c2
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. An embedded script payload was also detected within the XFA form, indicating the likely execution of malicious code. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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_00000359.bin
7f821b1d259cf5f78d58c6133a1fe9d0b4eb921c31e8f2fce0bb6bedbafc7e52		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12209 bytes

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