Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea07ba77fd0e82cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f2d6b9fffed587e63445080f647f0769 SHA-1: d841f086021ee954ff0e5b5fbaa518e387c69272 SHA-256: ea07ba77fd0e82cfce3028d2b20e0a64d3106fbc92b25edf2fe54ab5e1342e47
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 that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This indicates the file is designed to be opened by a vulnerable PDF reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and likely related to the exploit's functionality.

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/