PDF malware analysis — malicious · ae6be415b89e84e0

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.3 KB

MD5: fd2c74a5b6a72f41a071a5a4141714c0 SHA-1: 1c4f77439f58593f1cbc85a17a034ed3241e9cf8 SHA-256: ae6be415b89e84e00e68065a5af81de5ea85fe1d8be417a258cf535792b37501

188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The heuristic firings indicate the presence of an XFA form with an embedded script payload, which is characteristic of exploit delivery. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, although its specific actions are not detailed in the provided evidence.

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` `08b02f4b58c49fe46528a5e0b133b003f8f84c8d5b155f86d9642a5cd215e2c6`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359	15944 bytes

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