Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae7410ad032d6553…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: f65a898b367ad9c321c40121e14aee65 SHA-1: 7ee2ef2f8a8c83edf73d79e82985228ff4a92174 SHA-256: ae7410ad032d655382f18d13c24149b2ddf6e08689ec91df48940c8f69998760
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a known Adobe Reader vulnerability through an XFA form. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure. The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV, confirming the exploit's intent. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript, likely part of the exploit chain, but its exact function is not fully discernible without further dynamic analysis.

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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