Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8fa52ac888cdbe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f31c97755e665572edf50b4370f40a5e SHA-1: 49775389a33f36fdcd8406a7b7c6c2c000618a49 SHA-256: a8fa52ac888cdbe75d5f9aab3e7033b2d3c76f3ba6d623e8ff72c7a86935c1f1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit's functionality.

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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