Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e4e205dabf1c88c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 989f97e57e6b46c293d9dfcc14ea4cf0 SHA-1: cf437f359c64b3fb8c702d5ba17658e805c1f200 SHA-256: 3e4e205dabf1c88c5bb638f3b5f89bd1a928d748f266be69e5bb72cb98ef9a88
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically identified an exploit for CVE-2010-0188, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template structure.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/