Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd35da6e3e27fa48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: a7e4f08050704477958e9a56237b6053 SHA-1: 78a3e3b2976b2e5ee7bfe45f7074059144a37d08 SHA-256: dd35da6e3e27fa48a2223bef38d3ee7f6d9c939e1a97522867f80d37bf60a6fa
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader via XFA forms. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and likely used in the exploitation chain. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file, classifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821.

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/