Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c75eeebf0a9b46a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 3e3fbc191fbe3d2cec5b1f63ca9c1c2c SHA-1: 44cbb28050c801b9985e450e095c8b94a4d54b7e SHA-256: 4c75eeebf0a9b46a6485028d699a6377e31c7777ff34883ed02d82099c0c60cc
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected an XFA form and a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA. This exploit likely leads to arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but has no reputation.

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/