Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaacb028cd93ed83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: d19b4e5b7348204f2b4070f3db44e31d SHA-1: ba651d7b00253a90ce6070a4a6e1df18e56a67b8 SHA-256: aaacb028cd93ed83a3a74d2beee202121f3c490e34a3559d58dd4932966e06c8
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Link

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV, specifically detecting an exploit related to CVE-2010-0188 targeting XFA forms and LibTIFF. This exploit likely serves to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/