Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dcaede556eca165…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: a1318bda46d10cccf57dc0e055502646 SHA-1: fdbe6ee4380dc2255a129de23046fc6aacab402d SHA-256: 9dcaede556eca165854856bccd52eb75e4d1ac5a5ff47728c89bb50147b7e37d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to be opened with a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader to execute a malicious payload. No scripts were extracted, and the document body content is not indicative of a specific lure.

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/