Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c41a44b5ade86cc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 27d2617e84f63dde21f061e47eb50819 SHA-1: 7ec29574f695a328c9df1ef18024a3e91048ad48 SHA-256: c41a44b5ade86cc1cf92208c40cb609bd73b3f354d69da7cd0f0aebffafe7c65
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that contains an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploits. Specifically, the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic fired, indicating exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within Adobe Reader's XFA processing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but no further malicious activity is directly observable from the provided snippets.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/