PDF malware analysis — malicious · c0d85977be4a2bed

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.3 KB

MD5: 6c17e5debaa7c9c561df9a8fb9af1a75 SHA-1: df41f5e2d4c090f9576eb141d260959d4b41801f SHA-256: c0d85977be4a2bed9977e6d78d61dec6b290f58f135c9cf6ae5fb69739bf733b

188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. An embedded script payload was also detected within a PDF stream. The presence of these exploit-related indicators strongly suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader.

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` `ef48471630165bf6298f0d7d7523de55a76ad57d4b8838e24a7de843410a4930`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359	15912 bytes

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