Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ec35c1b3b00bbb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: d5d08af59a1750aaafd72526c2b0f0f0 SHA-1: 8cda810bcf17247a38a4cfa9b4b50729604bf817 SHA-256: 2ec35c1b3b00bbb70ec309494c0068324c511aa1dc85f6dad25a23b5d7ff0031
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 contains an exploit targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain. 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/