PDF malware analysis — malicious · cf88678607c7f963

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.1 KB

MD5: 7c8b24741e96cbec2f6439097700fca3 SHA-1: a7d5147108d09b05530f8aef6a0ecd7e041b1a5e SHA-256: cf88678607c7f963e6a716595ff9bddac08f0b736f85ed99a54da106a7173b4d

188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded script is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, although its specific actions are not detailed in the provided evidence. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

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_00000354.bin` `2ba6f90d4fd688fbf3287186ce347a94f2a337d06c705cb873541f812533f5e4`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x354	15752 bytes

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