Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d51d4a4e9f4bf6eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.6 KB
MD5: d07259af3c3382bdb9e3227523947d78 SHA-1: 26b06dbd395074b8c0ddddba3af67572642d4af7 SHA-256: d51d4a4e9f4bf6eb9af0d9ac7df5a796482eb2183c673014cced3aff674aa2b6
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is known to be exploited via crafted XFA content. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and likely serves as a lure or part of the exploit chain. The exploit targets Adobe Reader's handling of XFA images.

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-36835 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36835
  • 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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