PDF malware analysis — malicious · a1c6bfbc10595328

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB

MD5: 5229d2bd19a58e9db5dec2cfa82196e4 SHA-1: 7069922e43ead14e147b56c763ca1816e65d8059 SHA-256: a1c6bfbc10595328278a3e5684c620bad504d410d5914fd94d765f344ecd6d27

188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. Heuristics indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, strongly suggesting the document is designed to execute malicious code upon opening. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure.

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` `c4ec1832a28ccc3ad1737c80ea20cd30a53128962b34001a4ba82bb0e34f8df8`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x384	12288 bytes

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