Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f90750ebba231368…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.7 KB
MD5: f33e9af073c6c14d1f6e06b8d6e8cb51 SHA-1: ed715d0bde98f9f687baf7ed7e4130a5acb6caeb SHA-256: f90750ebba2313688c42ad390a54ff3775464f26042d5317455b2059dc4d8018
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing text, but the exploit and embedded script are strong indicators of malicious intent.

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.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • 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_file_obj0008.bin
a18be6d90a1808669081cf417b5f9add9c140d1051f135717ef3a6e0239d4ef2		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 51143 bytes

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