MALICIOUS
248
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1059.001 PowerShell
The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded script payload, identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0, is designed to execute arbitrary code. The presence of XFA and embedded scripts strongly indicates an exploit delivery mechanism.
Heuristics 7
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Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188PDF 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.
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XFA form contains executable script high PDF_XFA_SCRIPTPDF 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.
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-6136306-0
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ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAVClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOADPDF 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.
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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 |
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embedded_pdf_script_00000374.bin455ce2144cc7702f8bb66037c9b5a0521bd04aaaf2feb37e7adae84e28436b83 |
pdf-embedded-script | PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x374 | 12764 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36756
Obfuscation or payload:
unlikely
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