Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aaa2ad9377aadbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 3f22f9bfa549b4273f9405d908bb9a40 SHA-1: 15939ab768bb69e65282ae911aee8b50fb073ac4 SHA-256: 1aaa2ad9377aadbb6241ecdce5751f2fb7a4be7a9d78ffe608c9c282ec92525a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The file is a PDF document that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This indicates the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is not indicative of user-facing content. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template structure rather than a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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-36821 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821
  • 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/