Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ececd06e70f5e0f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 9ce065abd35cbd3985e3ba8aa82c8c60 SHA-1: b7408d66febf43f34560f9a1a299acbccce88b00 SHA-256: ececd06e70f5e0f47e8656e724017e0125f4b09ee2117593151e79112dad8a04
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The heuristic firings and ClamAV detection confirm its malicious nature. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit chain. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript, likely part of the exploit's execution flow.

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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