Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc441f5d29e56630…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: e462b387c45499dbb1d1279ea6b386f6 SHA-1: 9a3515231ad74edc605396cf94c0557db55ea2fe SHA-256: fc441f5d29e56630abdee9f2c8333a4b2ef9ee2aab80dd9486c2d591e9e84a98
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting XFA forms. Heuristics indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, suggesting the document is designed to execute malicious code upon opening in a vulnerable application. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or payload delivery mechanism.

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_0000034c.bin
55feba63db6d594ce3e68eb78924b33fa42b08486a46202f0757efa2e53e9b67		 pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34C 12351 bytes

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