Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e98ca2aa2a0923d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 9557f67ff49967116dad62e64937ec67 SHA-1: 53d3f1e59bf83cfefdea673662bb1a39569efcf4 SHA-256: 9e98ca2aa2a0923db3356e5b527a2da5e3b75ebc7dc76b34487cc8735b7493ef
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and is likely part of the exploit delivery mechanism.

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/

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