Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb87fed588d7c8a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 9cf20075da0a7b112b18b0bed9806afb SHA-1: 896466931b3991f9c62aa50e47bc876c5a0437f9 SHA-256: bb87fed588d7c8a7a604a4ca8f6f0d9bff2878961dc07e28d09c10a05bf81026
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit infrastructure.

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/