Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b24365090ed092c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 5870a9b0c6adc32bb8e997d5cc43b13f SHA-1: 3877e22d626161a8b19878599051a2e06cea33ff SHA-256: b24365090ed092c061747b5105ffb9af0ad76a8101ca354d959a39dd01769a5e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically flagged the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the PDF is designed to exploit a known vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and may be part of 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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