Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d7da13f440277e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 130762ca7fe28713d10c6f80b70e7172 SHA-1: f97a50a91938d498f528bcfe02085e7901c48d7c SHA-256: 7d7da13f440277e9c5877a22ba8919bb8bc6dd13ebabefd4cf8d6caa9815f51a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This indicates the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector. ClamAV also detected this file as malware, confirming its malicious nature.

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/