Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98d182c45057e893…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 0b381a14549b1508e11a6dd72ad9b889 SHA-1: 0e716e2ab2523d18aa5fb8a59e86c885892a1877 SHA-256: 98d182c45057e893a53a9d1ea1fd3213ed2e9c2f5c51976ab3650f6ac531dbd3
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 file contains an exploit targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit's structure.

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/