Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef598ea9b0a18709…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.0 KB
MD5: 5724e77a6037df1da5561222f67388ec SHA-1: 49f423226bc80d76be67d5173287cabd2241174b SHA-256: ef598ea9b0a18709be41b98c590397d40ddfb0e88da441400527c286cf737ac8
248 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains XFA forms and embedded scripts, indicating it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities. Specifically, the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic firing confirms an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded script payload, detected by ClamAV as Js.Exploit.HTML-27, likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA scripting and the specific CVE exploit strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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.
  • 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
2160217d8e259bdc8fe84f243b794a0e0234e2c4fce819e4e48c60248617c1e6		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 112901 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Js.Exploit.HTML-27
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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