Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f04e553e74604c84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 18990f8e1091092db60ba5b0ef0d67d6 SHA-1: 141e1bda281e349d50fd4351c342516e1baa5369 SHA-256: f04e553e74604c842cb80c34c5f3fe9ea4c693fb44292cb56df621fe7650bda4
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV, specifically flagged for exploiting CVE-2010-0188 via XFA forms in Adobe Reader. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the document's structure and may be used in conjunction with the exploit. The document body contains obfuscated content typical of exploit delivery.

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/