Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 260fc2da510f2117…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: e073d2257858d2b78bdc15a5a2132bb9 SHA-1: f23e6e5f0f2025d41f9a6453ec1d358ef15b5748 SHA-256: 260fc2da510f21170bcf8f5ad15b85708cbff8d239267b98bcb0eccef2d0e459
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF document contains an exploit targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image processing. The XFA form structure is present, and an embedded URL was found, likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

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/