Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f61aeba8cb641c1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: b7afdd539b9b7d93b11ccf644cffde97 SHA-1: bff70ffc7984930f5dd62d6e5404d54d6c67b5eb SHA-256: f61aeba8cb641c1cedcad32b169a277f2ff8a63e5d3f342608710cd2fdd70fc6
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 LibTIFF XFA image handling. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure, further supporting the exploit vector.

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/