MALICIOUS
128
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
T1204 User Execution
The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to be opened with an vulnerable PDF reader to trigger the exploit and download a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit chain.
Heuristics 4
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Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188PDF 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.
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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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