Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a73ebf2dd5ac7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 11d7c80c45f383fd0718dc9ea0ece25e SHA-1: 44e8cf450c0acbe1669926695a553328a60c9cad SHA-256: d5a73ebf2dd5ac7be051f61f9e3a3ffd89562bf2355200e534765a12ae87317f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling within XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit 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/

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