Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b754560aa7800e4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: e1abe0396477f2bc5903b0ba4f98d268 SHA-1: 6934d6df001045690470c045a4cb1a0839b8be12 SHA-256: b754560aa7800e4b974bffcac6fd128f4df4b42220bf2bc8ef681637656e008f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a known Adobe Reader vulnerability within an XFA form. This suggests the PDF is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/