MALICIOUS
128
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment
The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form, which is a known vector for exploiting the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The exploit targets the LibTIFF component to achieve code execution. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821, confirming its malicious nature. The embedded URL, while likely benign in isolation, is associated with the XFA template structure.
Heuristics 4
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Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188PDF 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.
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URLOne 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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