Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75dee4d2e0438aff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4341891a7868d3553e45a6489a71c334 SHA-1: ae52536efb9f2d2f56742baa7aad8857ebc7d90b SHA-256: 75dee4d2e0438aff13b6066edda61d149a8def53d74b38f2454266c8ad1c25ea
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute a payload. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure and likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism.

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/