Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f664cde3a3e3653b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: a631bdf9c4750dac57acc51ba5d5a074 SHA-1: fb6e73ec837a0f399f0bad95de3c03767cdd431b SHA-256: f664cde3a3e3653b30f5355aab464dfb64b3dd8d1f89d4f541a7818a562618c7
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains an XFA form which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. An embedded script payload was also detected within the XFA form, indicating the likely execution of malicious code. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0' further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

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_00000384.bin
6b01025756c7f4ce4e648b43569fc49709060304ddbf242997b112f27b306ce8		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x384 12312 bytes

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