Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd583ba2c98aea62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 880191fed337f8928fa2bb4514f886d1 SHA-1: 19635a551dc1c7bfaf156987f4d8a19cd724faa9 SHA-256: dd583ba2c98aea6243ce71395ccc48c296ebf37f775e1219a75c384815bf6813
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is part of the XFA structure. The attack pattern is a classic exploit delivery via a crafted PDF.

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/