Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4df24d0df2aadcea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: e17e0cbab2c27233652ca5f8258f86b1 SHA-1: 7efb432c6ae43c543f9178ece3f53b856e875c20 SHA-256: 4df24d0df2aadcea66acad9bf358041a78a55ef39c1d29f8da584f8c8ce3558e
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain. ClamAV also detected this as a known PDF exploit. The exploit likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/