Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 586c4738124b2c9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: d099abeadd98230b8d3868971c73131e SHA-1: 9cf78c6b582ed37188a45d1697332d86a2038915 SHA-256: 586c4738124b2c9cf04c138e001640a12ff9deb8f1176cec4782f795bb56db1c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is known to be exploitable via crafted XFA content. The embedded URL, though not directly actionable, is associated with XFA templates and may be related to the exploit's functionality. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like content that likely contributes to the exploit execution.

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/