PDF malware analysis — malicious · a1fa8595e94b9bd5

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB

MD5: b23ecf2bbba610d92d7d407893052b19 SHA-1: c202074b23f40b0054b52bfe2e5536c5d7476424 SHA-256: a1fa8595e94b9bd57daef83964685e29acd656008030df7301a6dbd740fedb5c

188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form which is known to be a vector for exploits. Specifically, the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic indicates exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within Adobe Reader's XFA processing. An embedded script payload was also detected, suggesting the exploit is used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is likely part of the exploit chain.

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_0000034c.bin` `d0e3a906d745355db46d1e10a24b0e3cb56b29c278d6ab6d4dc7868bb3b6e788`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34C	12351 bytes

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