Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c699b3d2b3968ecf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 8976b7326d9263a3f0c1ffa1374db50e SHA-1: 87151469fe7ababf38ee8921fa651f3996417e58 SHA-256: c699b3d2b3968ecfc5ab81581b0bfd18a7d0f4133fa313cbd5417d9da1aa069a
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically flagged the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure.

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/

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