Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8efec28acfafe46b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 50d6e4d120a43bc0610bea0032622a50 SHA-1: 169abd289e43986351b24e2d2407478a636a79b5 SHA-256: 8efec28acfafe46b2bf1696f4cfd00700d6b930fb8524a5c2cfe42c70e1a1744
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicated by the critical heuristic firing for the exploit. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but no further malicious activity is directly observable from the provided evidence.

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/