Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2708cf5345bd234c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: bab60135d38a2c5d5a3f722ad4342f0d SHA-1: a2123ee23adab264a925416c6825bc7287dbc181 SHA-256: 2708cf5345bd234c8f80fe21267f330de552cfcf194b92d6faf4fa13249b2334
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and is likely part of the exploit delivery mechanism. The exploit aims to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to further malware infection.

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/