Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29e37ddf8a20e9a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.4 KB
MD5: f9eb9ebc885b122d14b53620217d6248 SHA-1: 2281ac3da682052cd92b503e5900e92261588ab6 SHA-256: 29e37ddf8a20e9a61dd510fcb156c0af5792a0fb3ca100460d39eb4547602a81
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

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-36835 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36835
  • 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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