Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca9ffeda5538ceb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: fe0908795d9eb23d33a6de29824381d7 SHA-1: 909096476b0725d473a588fbbf32b9cfceedcdfb SHA-256: ca9ffeda5538ceb738a755bc932f9e0d20b3cd9296bc71c9f55a8fa4b1ba5eee
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF document contains an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image processing. The XFA form itself is a common vector for such exploits. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates and further supports the exploit delivery mechanism. The file is classified as malicious based on these findings.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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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