Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e68553ae4592b756…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 18f649f914f4026577ba28fa18bfb45e SHA-1: 304214cf49186b1c1872efd2f11828db892ba37c SHA-256: e68553ae4592b75671c5e3aeb7cf2d813932151e064a2cef3138f4eda6a0248b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code, likely part of the exploit chain, but its exact function is unclear without further analysis.

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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