Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b330246059a88eb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 3cb1d7a4fba622f23bc77aa2f5f2de7e SHA-1: 55640b0e51ddf0f9b3c4a1a7d1e80fa2e3963ff1 SHA-256: b330246059a88eb18e83386017c9ef5b74ec0349cbe9272cf4bb773a001fe9d3
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is known to be exploited in Adobe Reader. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure. The exploit likely leads to the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

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/