Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2a474ee8da02630…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: ac62cd1bec02b4707386ca66eff4ca27 SHA-1: 22fed820ce4dd9b8512e2f8f63a759659fcd6b60 SHA-256: f2a474ee8da02630f63f4f1d1b8507825e641f3dcd350724aecdf6f8caf052b4
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

This PDF file contains an XFA form with embedded script, triggering critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF exploit. The embedded script payload is likely responsible for executing arbitrary code, leading to the malicious verdict. The presence of an embedded script payload and the specific exploit identified strongly indicate 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
  • 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
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • 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
1a5bf4a0f4fcf7f0c727dd159ac92bfa9bd1dc70fd0fc8ad5b45a9cfea140fda
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359 12322 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).