Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff8e51d069d5cad8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB
MD5: 48d1fed59f997adda712165a61608ea9 SHA-1: 1334ba1b1b7de4a6df6bc502426168c456634daf SHA-256: ff8e51d069d5cad8185f121d88088ee0e2ae12af44171fe1a540e6d01550bac6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded XFA forms and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. No document body text was available for further analysis, but the exploit and embedded file heuristics strongly suggest 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.
  • 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
60648e065a5e4dbf853905c24d9dbb09404ef4da3bed61c25739efcede704461		 pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 50989 bytes

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