Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a9fa94c9701526f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 73033eb6a50c706fab7111a5c7cdc627 SHA-1: a900c641e2377651d2ad6c2c7e515baa63a91001 SHA-256: 8a9fa94c9701526f53c5924bc3f5a215128cb836ec99b314d01a3a92af9ed364
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates the PDF exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is part of the exploit structure. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file, classifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821.

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/

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