Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c92c8ecf625edf80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: c1a27586d8509f9deddf146fc395e4d3 SHA-1: 25a3cd7668e35ad9074b2b9d15e9b726e973c62a SHA-256: c92c8ecf625edf80af2e8d01cbd5fcb4f457c795a4af736e454d6299af9818c1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability for initial execution. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and may be used in the exploit chain.

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/

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