Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df294f33fa9c4af8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB
MD5: 4b99a230354cd0c6789ae401ae2324fa SHA-1: 143cb4d6113e5889c87ed9b64f362902851d5630 SHA-256: df294f33fa9c4af80d77b3f92e10bff70ac9dd51fc7b9b4f94f2b911f2d757b8
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains an XFA form which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload, detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0, is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or payload delivery.

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_0000034e.bin
2ba374608c413cf2cd8779f1c81ae18237ddaeaa4bbece6c63a9b6597a25e6f5
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34E 74422 bytes