Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d17caa43579ff8aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 0e68bc6d818071f4c553ee5f56963d7b SHA-1: 59e8cb87f82d92277699f8d5e4dad153e8bd7928 SHA-256: d17caa43579ff8aa8c9a2e8a8313cae824cece7b934200e7e60756f03699241e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of 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/