PDF malware analysis — malicious · 7e0e0e04a25e632d

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.3 KB

MD5: e2bce1d14e83c19e0a967d1750eead53 SHA-1: 89db1f4d47ca3eb14e9a26dfb7c45e8267c639df SHA-256: 7e0e0e04a25e632d41879ae48b5b9f206b993fe70ff5979bc9a6690c221ec24f

190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is known to be a vector for exploits. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA. An embedded script payload was also found, suggesting the exploit likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but is not directly indicative of malicious activity.

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_00000359.bin` `3f5686de8a73deca75c5fae28a95aff9c07e653f01bca6a2522ac851371d765d`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359	15928 bytes

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