Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31aea74d71e03900…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 0d0a3ed62b14f425b5b523520066a229 SHA-1: 4a4c83b9874e8341755a64e8dd988010d6c316bc SHA-256: 31aea74d71e03900277efacf87a75ab41b02af8f8343fd03a7bbb3885da55dde
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This indicates the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable application. No scripts were extracted, and the document body content is not user-readable text, further supporting the exploit-driven nature of the attack.

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/