Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35232c9775b556af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: efde3611bf6383efc03cea70edacec5e SHA-1: 2604999dc64e0063f68cee4db0c5201055d2dd68 SHA-256: 35232c9775b556af8a009d0fec92b3bc2116edbad847bf2591b1f31c9ca29162
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is associated with XFA templates. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload.

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/