Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbfe71355b8699ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.0 KB
MD5: e6d25fb71ed2ce731b9ff6201b4bec8b SHA-1: ebc09e499e25f6f912db6a6d1a99f6185ffd93f7 SHA-256: fbfe71355b8699ce0021d3b1cea1a2a390c962a1e10c54572a67d0edc67c995a
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains an XFA form with an embedded script, which is a known vector for exploiting vulnerabilities like CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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_00000238.bin
af8dc9c3131d032ef9f6a7460a1df7a6ae28a008a6f72bbab565078534c6b2ae		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x238 114007 bytes

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