Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fa69a4f195e8d4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 0f60ca884ba454113974a9026de89291 SHA-1: 7e430ff39786c78fa9b237a4317ac8d6f8686ca5 SHA-256: 9fa69a4f195e8d4d3d5cf15f3db3c50943ca8330c87f8aaa2aec6116afe81580
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL, while benign in appearance, 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/

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