Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0ecd1b7b4c9e824…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 4ff0a5cd5210147854044071eb4068d3 SHA-1: 7e094af4a2ed390f69d5532192fb652ff4d196e5 SHA-256: e0ecd1b7b4c9e8243179c43872f8f4895f7314ba5e9e6f25b04ebeaf6c5fe2d7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit's 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/