Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55459a9c9e0170be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 1e7189ee0d3409219346d135567b86c9 SHA-1: 988e3b3c1ae929a93be88edda0bafc61046f82d6 SHA-256: 55459a9c9e0170be7807534b67f9ab17c7cfe711c26a349afac7863caa638814
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing with LibTIFF. 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 and likely used in the exploit chain.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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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