Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b80213d91b53ed4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: b6b24f4a50d3cf794422f48681668f9f SHA-1: e4e382ff901a5bfa6275d59ecde51bd26d2abba5 SHA-256: 3b80213d91b53ed4cfea3667919664ef75a3c60fdaf8b51cc44160aa709922d9
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain. 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/