Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd56485de649db22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ee3fd2ea5601e23817d903001ab7b29a SHA-1: 279b3a9b9c5c75fc7336dc9d83bf672e935648d3 SHA-256: bd56485de649db22c4fd4c8f340582dddac76ef5a6cc6dd7380f68d270dbd60a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The obfuscated document body content, when partially decoded, suggests JavaScript that likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but could also be a lure.

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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