PDF malware analysis — malicious · bfc3f778068155de

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB

MD5: 6c1ac0c3c47f8b5099d50a8ae21f1480 SHA-1: 16956a3dc58d736bfb540854b0caf7f3963b0604 SHA-256: bfc3f778068155de8da7a20b00e2c79059d5c2509a2e0ef42ed9162c4a222fcc

256 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF document exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF processing. The critical heuristic firings indicate that the document contains an embedded script payload designed to be executed, likely to download and run a second-stage malicious file, as suggested by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93' ClamAV detection and the extracted artifact 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin'.

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.Dropped-93 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-93
eval() call high PDF_EVAL

eval() found — commonly used for obfuscated exploit execution
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.
Suspicious extracted artifact medium EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED

PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `0110979caf2a254bad50776bc26dcb9ca9c0675ebad79021176a02ac50cedb47`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC6	77954 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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