Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51debf8c2d3ed6d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ee905df9f1115eea295167d0c6a8f09b SHA-1: 20c40deff9fe0389247cb1d7bf83402e2da33b64 SHA-256: 51debf8c2d3ed6d56b2fd39a9f7504b8b0833e7eb22951f7903b7510abaa0840
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability in PDF viewers. The embedded URL, while likely benign in this context, is listed as an IOC. The XFA form structure is also noted.

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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