Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e813ef5c39ee3138…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 6973d9975e0e7bb358859d314c30c5a2 SHA-1: 8d61fa139fadfdb12dcb0a6477b55fb1ee477d57 SHA-256: e813ef5c39ee3138d636ecb525f3479b01178fbe00cbe42513573384fba2288d
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains an XFA form with an embedded script, which is indicative of an exploit. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. This exploit likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. 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_0000034c.bin
da785e839fe3679bc0da856af6f6c45339e763c61fbc0bd2746da6c53615897a
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34C 12351 bytes