Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94400990f9c86ce1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 67ff7e942a7f27aabbd261f4b2ea5c64 SHA-1: a093996ed8ee9d22575a3f911b8dfc4bfae243ae SHA-256: 94400990f9c86ce160649fd613d8c5d8cb163722493e56334aded0bbab76f411
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and likely serves as a lure or part of the exploit chain.

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/

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