Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fff29f191ceba41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 224bb180453b3417fbf7b6cd98540aea SHA-1: e48b399fa8d95d9fc65d6728cf5d28cf7139b1df SHA-256: 4fff29f191ceba41994ca470ecc81b0bc88dff36f7c2e28080eedb758e2b7950
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This indicates the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure.

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/