Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97425eab3c56cf62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 46b5b9ddaf3635f20601aaf90bdda7e3 SHA-1: d86254e778485a6deb094b7a7cbc2ae1c7545770 SHA-256: 97425eab3c56cf62559161c58131284d62846a0935cf39da87593bf8fdd51c9e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which is leveraged by the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed by the provided evidence.

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/