Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20d2341722c366b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 734794697470bc70f0c473bc51a773b0 SHA-1: 75e2cfa4767971196e6508d60f5031492af5662a SHA-256: 20d2341722c366b6ca8a16a8df32d43a92a1b469dbc31a82d11c17706ca3d1b8
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. ClamAV also detected it as malicious. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, reinforcing the exploit vector. The exploit likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/