Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21df4b4d60899fd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 88e6fe5961192b0c3f0cc5630ae38453 SHA-1: 5c0789d1d8664e18678d840b6de91ccea3ad797e SHA-256: 21df4b4d60899fd21842ede1fb290081a7bff83c6401ff24b01f683595995098
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA form data and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit's structure. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The exploit likely aims to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document.

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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