Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e9dbdd4c1c36c29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 9f27aac94a698d322fec55598885779b SHA-1: d06de048d693e4816fc64ae02d17b3cae63fad96 SHA-256: 2e9dbdd4c1c36c29cdabfc11a233ba0989f9f3dd41fc8bdf485dceee32eff47d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2010_0188 indicates that this PDF document is designed to exploit a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The presence of an XFA form, identified by the PDF_XFA heuristic, is the mechanism used to deliver the exploit payload. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is part of the XFA template structure. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

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/