PDF malware analysis — malicious · ce5327004d5b4406

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.9 KB

MD5: 23fe8bd6cdfeea67beeea1341b7d9a53 SHA-1: 3e2708b6d7306ec5ddda41e8f59dd3406480f4f4 SHA-256: ce5327004d5b4406822557a571dd52768a242d2e0f08a12c3700c7b10742d029

214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements and JavaScript actions further supports this attack vector. The URL provided is associated with XFA templates but is not directly indicative of malicious activity itself.

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.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.
JavaScript action low PDF_JAVASCRIPT

PDF contains a /JavaScript action. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS

PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
AcroForm button with action trigger low PDF_ACROFORM_BUTTON

PDF contains a /Btn form field together with a SubmitForm/URI/Launch/JS trigger — this is the building block of fake 'Download' or 'Open' button overlays used in PDF phishing lures
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_000003ca.bin` `8eca215ca4365f029910f0e8e1cb3cb85d271adf7728850af73318573ffc9287`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x3CA	12150 bytes

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