Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d954669bc765700…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 521a221cc1a151730e2bf5914c958493 SHA-1: e868960f7b387a85b3cb524a82476fbe25934625 SHA-256: 4d954669bc7657009f3c85fabf0a2f9b2b5266394fe9384b158b195556883953
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 critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms and LibTIFF. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template 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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