Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e28e8ab46912db73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: a49617c799e958504b17c9711fbf272a SHA-1: fe8ba731a28cd6c6c9e8ebf3051120ac02cfbf11 SHA-256: e28e8ab46912db7338df8417deb6807fc42cc398b74277aa4843bfb2e9d66773
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 it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. 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/