PDF malware analysis — malicious · cf3a7d83c1d285b6

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB

MD5: c4a6cc0c80c65886afde6cc699fe477d SHA-1: d06a6c8022b5595ab1c6c9640fd2ed0dde8317da SHA-256: cf3a7d83c1d285b6dc629a5d3316951bddbdbcff40ff0c1efbc7c15e5084273d

248 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. Heuristics indicate an embedded script payload within an XFA form, suggesting the script is designed to execute malicious code. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or payload delivery. The ClamAV detections further confirm its malicious nature 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` `ec3cc18fef4a09f7a4c5496a4d2b89c45b79519e6a27afcda60cd05cb98721a3`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x374	12240 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36756 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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