Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9316149053bfe3a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 974b93f89a92a793842ffd906824a61a SHA-1: d4dff2cd4cb908ed3ea251c1e761b20689940511 SHA-256: 9316149053bfe3a4767ae95fcbe3b2e133c1f53efad5a94e3d8ae3ac95d85604
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but has no reputation. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/