Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1041a582caf8a68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB
MD5: 5417e2b38a725672de0b574699a1cdef SHA-1: 7ce805664e9290a221a6f7f1d5139e98360163d7 SHA-256: f1041a582caf8a68f31c84ecd5987fc930105390ad60790438cb71b7dce74799
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling. An embedded script within the XFA form is likely responsible for executing the malicious 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_00000359.bin
4595e131100460377c6f1b0094268ab14b8df5914496bb822390403fc9c46e06
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12209 bytes