Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29ca80d273d2683e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: fd47bb5fd550cddb1d0393ff583e0747 SHA-1: bd2d8031cd475b2b9aada7db38293242ff129720 SHA-256: 29ca80d273d2683e1df5309bbd83d2fab938e078f7eede583edb838c55674f94
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) content. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component when processing XFA forms. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template 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/