Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d9ae8213062eca2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 8f563b74dcbab1cf08d4bf8293619137 SHA-1: 2a9ecaaf41ae7acac98236b4c1d992aa74bf64b3 SHA-256: 3d9ae8213062eca2be05eee566d443eee827b7d0561327de25febcf214a89286
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload, though no scripts were extracted to confirm this.

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/