Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8654e22db7f21729…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 0dd849d23d76e2184adc5ebc2de80e0e SHA-1: a2db89d94fa5c3e60a965ad1052aa3058b88431e SHA-256: 8654e22db7f21729cd25e5a03937a4eea42cfbea2108e4c28c331758471cd4b9
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload 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/