Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a34a5d41aeab2efa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 5b7bc5e4e6500c44c9cde65dbbe38a66 SHA-1: c92a2d11f5c8973cbb708b2c8bca95cdde9caab4 SHA-256: a34a5d41aeab2efa915efb861383472a7fd08c4f7ee5c52a9c5e1896c4a84203
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA forms. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its reputation is unknown. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/