Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2130faa014152ed8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 219756c6828a5ae09777e9a5184d9358 SHA-1: c9400c7dae5becd7606f438e55d58bce960d0acc SHA-256: 2130faa014152ed8d40deca6155e8d1165ae1e6ea8b5422c61c239643e3f16dd
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploitation. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA. This exploit likely leads to arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit structure.

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/

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