Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d1616403a3d4b9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 063cc624ee8f70c70203dfec168097c1 SHA-1: 16f457d945b0308cc9310c39eec0869ba0a92d51 SHA-256: 2d1616403a3d4b9cc7996cc708695d780d7db5ce2268871c44c9f601ee491dcd
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but is not directly indicative of malicious infrastructure.

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/