Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf14bd6d502cbee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f3159844cb743f8c8f5f06931e30e48f SHA-1: cf70a76182775dc8b5f03a9396432b5bb957e02d SHA-256: cf14bd6d502cbee9f5724ee9bf0cc86818b97e1d595349430bbd84ecf111cf50
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting LibTIFF within Adobe Reader's XFA processing. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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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