Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ded43bee12bed926…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 488094b054eb1f46c4a5fcc0ea8992ae SHA-1: 3c63c0f195fc3fe45c191372579fe1c17de8f046 SHA-256: ded43bee12bed9262d43dc757bcd96bb0ee1c1c5374b6d102e2ed93309b3dd87
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to be opened by a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is part of the XFA template structure.

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/

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