Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c63f9693b15d3a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4d0de1cca4997b8687226dd7f37b15ed SHA-1: 6bfa29eea14c02aa989a354d272a9c7384cbc4c2 SHA-256: 8c63f9693b15d3a4fc34dc2c3471f944e3688a442628ef4348349e1e4ac20880
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms and LibTIFF parsing. This indicates the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure and may be used in the exploit chain. No scripts were extracted, and the document body content is not indicative of user-facing lures.

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/