Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e63b391a2fe2a04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: c6dc25db60f25b5a82fe7d740ae7db1c SHA-1: 8d27207100916c7e60eea48544e049031995faeb SHA-256: 7e63b391a2fe2a04476728ce320e3d6028bc51e22b7224759d68e25ee30b9679
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure, suggesting it might be part of the exploit chain or a lure.

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/