Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2b4547d7eee966b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f95690a867c1cd7ce27337daee9ea193 SHA-1: 481e3183c14662a558de5a456f8592de617c68c8 SHA-256: c2b4547d7eee966b8c1e7eab222f243546e5de68023741b6aece1911127c565e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This indicates the file is designed to leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure and is associated with the exploit.

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/