PDF malware analysis — malicious · 7f4d8258b3291d88

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.0 KB

MD5: 4386ee5ccadca427e7dec5bda290e33c SHA-1: a31e23bb4d5904d6d805daf81a3ec28b5c3b5a1b SHA-256: 7f4d8258b3291d8892d41d7f43b57bda081ebd6fb5b8d668a30e2f60cbe7035e

188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the XFA (XML Forms Architecture) feature to exploit CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. The embedded script within the XFA form is the primary mechanism for this exploitation, indicating a delivery method aimed at tricking users into opening a malicious document.

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_0000034e.bin` `afa5950b313ede1707d9c542273e2ca1a016de29cde3751ee7b7b53b080ae2cc`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34E	15701 bytes

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