Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e14702781151ab1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: a18ac4aa40e159e96e476d51a07db703 SHA-1: 98465f3b5d62f1626fa44eca0ed3ed60e09254db SHA-256: e14702781151ab1d4582f7001b141bf9278b0649d33533d7e904ceff47b622b1
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 identified as malicious by ClamAV, specifically flagged for exploiting CVE-2010-0188 via an XFA form. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and could be a vector for further malicious activity.

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/