Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36be8f5a5d31fa42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 6f986615204b19086203265aa511ebae SHA-1: de8c05ebf32ef26328ca534b59fce8ea0f0ea6d6 SHA-256: 36be8f5a5d31fa4243fda8fab60ae8599799b69510a268db1371bccf5f77efb1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing CVE_2010_0188 indicates exploitation of a known Adobe Reader vulnerability within an XFA form. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code, likely part of the exploit payload, which is too malformed to determine its exact function but is indicative of malicious intent.

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/