Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 acc4e16e2d1523da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: d843c55ad841102c5355b461c116feb7 SHA-1: b05149d3073119e41163f7eff06283b83af1ad2d SHA-256: acc4e16e2d1523dae92e3193dfe5911d7d2ac3433ba6a9a719afb8ff774e3ebe
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains XFA form elements. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability (CVE-2010-0188) related to LibTIFF and XFA image exploitation. This suggests the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader, leading to arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template structure.

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/

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