Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c0dd8f6ba3f1980…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 51b3a71b2b8a117f96fe28511847b99c SHA-1: 05789e10060cd93d18c2a6b7c963e0a1cf74b316 SHA-256: 3c0dd8f6ba3f19807d5ec554812ba3e648c8f9ec1dcfcd5d1f5d51ebaf04bf09
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploits. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within Adobe Reader's XFA processing. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code that likely contributes to the exploit chain.

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/

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