Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8f7eef17d49ce35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 7dda0edf084db8070c1cc401a75efd9e SHA-1: da74415abb3d9c05b0227812b7990238b6339f88 SHA-256: e8f7eef17d49ce3527987b7bd9a192ea887732b43759e7ddb022eab011cb2ca7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is known to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and likely used in the exploit chain.

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/