Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e764fce5d71a8424…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 6b4662c99f4fa3b730a90d9100d5796c SHA-1: 1a6670f539ddd1d94e004479ab2cf686c5d9298b SHA-256: e764fce5d71a84247bf54cfe4ff831f55277e7eb46921bc70d5ab43af9eb247a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure and likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism.

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/