Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19ce35b7d3da4003…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.1 KB
MD5: e2bc9d62591e85adb635ec94ac282fb1 SHA-1: 865b6b31e8e413f0fae77f0ce455e2a7124512a5 SHA-256: 19ce35b7d3da400373dfb5a010509dfbafa1dd1cfb990fcbe89bc934fa38e71f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the file is designed to deliver a malicious payload via this known vulnerability. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and may be used in the exploit chain.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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/