PDF malware analysis — malicious · c7e01da26d107b69

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.6 KB

MD5: 0385362d415554c31ead83e7d003c4d4 SHA-1: 988beef9f9e70704c2d21ff1a9e5aaef00883554 SHA-256: c7e01da26d107b69ffc35a9549e969b231dc844b84241238432b51d97ff00988

188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document that leverages an XFA form to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded script, detected by multiple heuristics, is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be directly malicious in this context.

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` `cbcd7c56222e769c5f201a14377121fb3afe24535a5184a873b1d0245563a800`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x359	12209 bytes

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