Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c24f0823f53e0f0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f232eb62aefc45d7bc1a6e62fa83aa88 SHA-1: de4885bbd455d459c65ac730f3fe45057e314032 SHA-256: c24f0823f53e0f0abe0967222e6cf79f780a1116ac46b90362546b49aec77129
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing with LibTIFF. This indicates the document is designed to be opened by a vulnerable reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while likely benign in isolation, is present within the document structure.

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/