PDF malware analysis — malicious · 52d8017b01160b6d

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB

MD5: 898b13395bd7a269346ff17439a4a994 SHA-1: 63970498d36e417902aef5a8d524ff43e51ffc6d SHA-256: 52d8017b01160b6d3d052f95e5e98ab8f569251029904fcd9900edea32dfdd6c

188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload, likely responsible for executing the exploit, is present within the XFA structure. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but is not directly indicative of the payload delivery.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_pdf_script_00000384.bin` `5bb322ee5bbe83ebdd0e11e9c9f66ff67dc49d2b4dffe3e59bb6412df43b5b10`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x384	12276 bytes

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