Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44b2705dc11f66ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 2dd38cb5a8ea47004ecaa4c091d4beed SHA-1: db6d65b7fee2590a5e98b3442782ce6560d56b32 SHA-256: 44b2705dc11f66abaef90807dae275f56d480487b65be10e54471fc5b732c2f5
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. This suggests the document is designed to be opened by a user, leading to the execution of a malicious payload via the identified vulnerability. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but is not directly indicative of the payload's destination.

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/