Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a9e74b85f76169a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: fa2b01f7f624a480abf6822d575d491d SHA-1: 9b8e6258b93410d5a2eb4c2f11eee36d066eb643 SHA-256: 2a9e74b85f76169ab1ea201a84861e20c2d815e25047ef2d0f243225a103bdbd
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic firings for CVE-2010-0188 and Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821 indicate that this PDF file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The XFA form structure is leveraged to deliver the exploit payload, likely leading to arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is part of the document's 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/