Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3103f6792121224c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 3e1b170a3f23bc6126cb4e05ac0915d2 SHA-1: 7134d029f02abfa200fed9d1a04ea2f82b578183 SHA-256: 3103f6792121224c918b4ea821974536c8d0a6513391f8290c58234aea17d124
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain.

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/