Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9033dff9c04cb892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 396d725051ddb63ff7f7037709dd4ebf SHA-1: c4f9858e4405c6c399910f41e56fcffd3b83a4c1 SHA-256: 9033dff9c04cb8923b58b281ee04dab6441444b274c84fd03c3b58399d7db12c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that contains an XFA form, which is being exploited via CVE-2010-0188. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, as indicated by the critical heuristic firings. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but no further malicious activity was observed in 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/