Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43201aa84119bd1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 5ea69d27861177dc0867fb4861290c58 SHA-1: a2afae39c04690ec8464930b1e0b190a9749cd06 SHA-256: 43201aa84119bd1bdcd9a416ff89c153aaa100d3baee20e2a76fac4651523a5e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is known to deliver a malicious payload. The presence of an embedded URL, although not directly malicious in this context, is consistent with exploit delivery mechanisms. No scripts were extracted, and the document body contained only obfuscated form data.

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/