Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd5599718fadb308…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 7fdf855b4d42d1cac795e3466effb9ac SHA-1: 6d5edf2bf0a96782ca4483b7a54b094a24fde8f3 SHA-256: dd5599718fadb308c44473c263b0a117bf14a9c2d5686085dcc52eac66f4c9a2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain, potentially used to download a secondary payload. The document body appears to be obfuscated JavaScript or similar scripting language, further indicating malicious intent.

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/