Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 954f3df0fc0ddbb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: c7a535f5bce2b4646c5fb0af4df0f52c SHA-1: 3c1aee907f40538c103d6cf17a4ec9e2b9bd1de8 SHA-256: 954f3df0fc0ddbb79fe3ed2110cb0e5409c1e1f8685c5910c4a980fcdc5ccd46
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that triggers the critical CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is known to be used for initial execution of malicious payloads. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure, indicating the exploit's delivery mechanism. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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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