Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce2a3ae94083e039…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 8b8036113eb9e1bb1f2ad864c88996f9 SHA-1: cf5e134f79f9aafc7e4dcb19cd942211878968bc SHA-256: ce2a3ae94083e039c5ae0286973e14bcb3aba8c575b2db294c3cee35d55ceab4
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploiting Adobe Reader vulnerabilities. Specifically, the 'CVE_2010_0188' heuristic indicates exploitation of LibTIFF within Adobe Reader. This suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. No scripts were extracted, and the document body content is not user-readable text but rather appears to be malformed or encoded data related to the XFA structure.

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/