Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da7d95e10b71f383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: a6599bc016db52f1096d033069882fe0 SHA-1: 424a9b46f2ce3d48a3c57cb381b59eb3e78c4e8b SHA-256: da7d95e10b71f38346347e0a79ead61fd51ded4f6b3fd8faae1cdc436c3d8c0d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded XFA content which triggers a critical vulnerability (CVE-2010-0188) in Adobe Reader, leading to the execution of arbitrary code. The document body appears to be obfuscated JavaScript, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

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/