Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95906aee3a9c2b3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: e145a0cc66f9c4a75fdca0c45173b28f SHA-1: 1237c949da2ac565cbb4d1f3b4695559ef3ad18b SHA-256: 95906aee3a9c2b3e79b8ffcc10cb0551bcc954d2aeb8735fd29042215feaabe1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF document exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector. The ClamAV detection confirms the malicious nature of the file. The exploit likely serves as a dropper for a secondary payload.

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/