Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ac4d376a823f61c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: b20f7b5b9f11d075d1b8e33f55a6fb23 SHA-1: f9592e4d24c955a77d5959e1c9522f67eebaf066 SHA-256: 3ac4d376a823f61c5bf48dfc8e3864487eac39f3fa8a12ef5e78b805c48ac48d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing. This exploit is known to download and execute a second-stage payload. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821, confirming its malicious nature. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery.

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/