Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5352c097ef4eb6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 000a033ba068501a7fa2b6fb60e2d26a SHA-1: e7ad41a92fdda368247e668dace0573d68d30978 SHA-256: c5352c097ef4eb6ac6a05d312d8231a8401119e1b7c06f0bda657882b49f437b
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 exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The heuristic firings indicate that the file contains a malicious XFA payload. The embedded URL, while likely benign in isolation, is present within the context of an exploit. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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/