Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8af8ec62e502566d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.1 KB
MD5: 2449e365b86d9b2cd99d76ae710d3f08 SHA-1: 12f7c43674c811220232694d830e8c88f3bd441f SHA-256: 8af8ec62e502566d1517987abe9c9b67f01cde3b6e9345052550579478766696
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 specifically the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is known to be used for delivering arbitrary payloads. The embedded URL, while likely benign in this context, is listed as an indicator.

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/

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