Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dda9ebfd3e5ea34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.5 KB
MD5: 52e713cd0f8e6ce9c2b5bb8d0056d8c0 SHA-1: 10c1a444a2958298a9c868111bdd4a75133cf559 SHA-256: 9dda9ebfd3e5ea3400de8a69fd9a5f40b888759c8c0e46a4b3c5394ffd40fce4
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically flagged the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting LibTIFF within the XFA payload. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader to achieve code execution.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/