Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f7d3e2af7b26c5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: e9825e0830320caf4ffc81b8250b5e3b SHA-1: 2f98a0c854160a59a6177c434ad74daf0b6eb886 SHA-256: 3f7d3e2af7b26c5dda447a1febcf3daa2518fcb39fd166fcc1c303aac294dd39
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to be opened by a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader, leading to the execution of malicious code. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure, which is exploited by this vulnerability. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/