Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53c4d598dd3b13c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 0efe6a8f24f68af3a56496a36527ac07 SHA-1: 6be4daf3174c3d20e9b66399dd7bb1d3f56cd3e5 SHA-256: 53c4d598dd3b13c56fb706c1b84363b8dc2923db0e358d9a3e5789949c0f1358
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains XFA form elements. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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/

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