Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e961dd113cbf0f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 0697862c0b583ecd8e3af12bb15e68ee SHA-1: d9549b9f61b1ca68da68c17f67f54a1bbd580456 SHA-256: 3e961dd113cbf0f49b8f284df8b868c362d9eaaf6d7e3d662fba93a0d4cddfd0
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing with LibTIFF. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability for initial execution. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and likely related to the exploit's functionality.

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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