Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de7d88b2fa2984ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 85861f36d49f26c1f32faef5e92b841c SHA-1: 70a142adc8d8229439ee6de16948bb2d4c92515c SHA-256: de7d88b2fa2984ed0e915cc6e6bf5c98f67ce626fb3833cff4c301fae4a5e4e3
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that contains embedded XFA (XML Forms Architecture) content. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component when processing XFA forms. The embedded script, though obfuscated, appears to be JavaScript responsible for deobfuscating and executing the exploit payload. The presence of an embedded URL further suggests a download mechanism for a secondary stage.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/