PDF malware analysis — malicious · a59bc8806d92a6ac

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB

MD5: ebea8d149a7ebf2633a29eada847cc23 SHA-1: 1b7368ed8476f3176d2f046aac7c65264201e4b3 SHA-256: a59bc8806d92a6ac2f9ed40e3328297f64630b663c99c2021ec939d0586b2ddb

214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers an embedded JavaScript payload. This payload is designed to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, which is a critical vulnerability related to the LibTIFF library. The embedded script is the primary mechanism for delivering the exploit, and the embedded URL is likely related to the exploit infrastructure.

Heuristics 9

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.
JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT

PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS

PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON

PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
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_00000374.bin` `1639e1f59de20ba65295f1f6de84d11d9ae07b76b35631ca0401e5acb4aa6052`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x374	12177 bytes

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