Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f12e36497fe60415…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: bee0d678db611abf57c00980a32c4f9f SHA-1: 64ca8e3d3a84050eefd9d83918f2d8a4b8aa02bb SHA-256: f12e36497fe604153692f2d641539432364c259f78ada4b9a58ea8dcca0b7d7c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The sample is a PDF file 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 exploit's structure.

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/