PDF malware analysis — malicious · ce0e840e4db3e43b

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.2 KB

MD5: 12c0331f24d77dd780dbc507c87ea5f4 SHA-1: f7596310e11f9b3388fbf4cbe262ad273be2f696 SHA-256: ce0e840e4db3e43bdd921739600b16bccc757b8da0535b2bbe4f709d9a720679

248 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF images within XFA content. An embedded script within the PDF stream is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload. The ClamAV detections further confirm the malicious nature of the file, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent.

Heuristics 7

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
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV 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.
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_00000374.bin` `a8f1ded22d02de96d742659758ba00fc91f06af668818d31ca11efd5ca0f224c`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x374	12764 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36756 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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