Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ed42037a2b9a6ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: b2281f45bc3588ff5520c39cabfaf573 SHA-1: 6c0cd2e22fabbf1818d207fcfa59039a071eb886 SHA-256: 9ed42037a2b9a6eeb7d9b77673ea8abe8dea32396de5e7f9e23599bf409293e6
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader. This exploit is used to achieve code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA 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/