Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1883ab84f50abdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB
MD5: dda27dc77472d02aa14860f670b5fd27 SHA-1: bb09a2e6c7f72385761393e2dbafd22d28d115ca SHA-256: f1883ab84f50abddc0f939590bc6fd54020285ef2d68a27bfe1c5dc38b295d0e
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV, specifically detected as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. Static analysis revealed the presence of an XFA form with an embedded script payload, which is indicative of an exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution within the context of the vulnerable application.

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://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_0000023c.bin
9b52cd03de78bdd881fa36e756de7e5190f2dfdc23126eeb386ae704e006b493		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x23C 91134 bytes

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