Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b10cfa4e7d9f8bb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: bc18d924be12049a82c326cd2ed687dc SHA-1: d2b4a9dadf9fc0056bd1c3c04c8f6ca6f77b851d SHA-256: b10cfa4e7d9f8bb4cadd2cdcfbab6d83d8b5266585e5aea12cd83b8db63761c2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF. This indicates the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. No scripts were extracted, and the document body content is not indicative of user-facing lures. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery URL.

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/