Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ada8ece507a5722…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 5b10016ef2172a7b2378a1ebd0352398 SHA-1: ab5e2382b1ecc695158148f6aa65e43f8359e6ba SHA-256: 3ada8ece507a5722f2fa7849d3cf599bd8b9ebce8ff148d7ff53fcba8e276634
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image handling. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure and likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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/