Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa344117a2028755…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 46ec045e5626414e24a3f5c06eda6240 SHA-1: 8ef32b7703a77e14853faf0c918bf6a4e2b9f255 SHA-256: aa344117a20287553eb518ad0c68110164b8d67887ab36e923caa97251ccd875
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within Adobe Reader's XFA forms. This suggests the PDF is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and may be used in the exploit chain.

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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