Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3047d8ae9dc1720d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 7952224dcd44fc62b10793674a49840d SHA-1: af35c47c197d1173da23dbc2ded4c54b5a16a41d SHA-256: 3047d8ae9dc1720dcf4a4f12fb12196cae346dd652f71a06dd86b3c4ca7936a3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form, which is known to be a vector for exploits. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting LibTIFF within XFA content. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is part of the XFA template 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/