Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22778dbfe3432642…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: a8ca4c7a70a5dbc4d7af4ea32916ff80 SHA-1: 0b483369f40588d3ff1995c96ab58433ed4cb20f SHA-256: 22778dbfe34326422f72f055601fb9fb475f4e02f39b3ec4bd02912455e8a92a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains embedded XFA content that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be 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/