PDF malware analysis — malicious · e125990d83c5bb9e

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.0 KB

MD5: caa219571b17ec34b09143ed59f2b3db SHA-1: 59a72a5ded462560829e8efbaa9f1127aede07b7 SHA-256: e125990d83c5bb9e6eeb7d79955259e52861ce99ed2a05943a65f252842282a5

188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF images within XFA. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. An embedded script payload was also detected, further indicating malicious intent. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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_0000034e.bin` `84e5fd1ce25dc7212246d6c41ca7cba5bbd2e222b1c4d837f7b766044c86f938`	pdf-embedded-script	PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x34E	15701 bytes

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