Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8654a1788f8a0b72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ada6c5da62c5161c40f1a21906bff2b2 SHA-1: a11a547ecadbbf0d5cd394ca348a5e8c7ebc4866 SHA-256: 8654a1788f8a0b7264fe5fecd545853df1450511edddc772c396f2e08cd262f0
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery or configuration.

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/