Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f67538d799527ba9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 282372651e92e2212d5740b5ab9a2b0a SHA-1: 10619b083714a999e79f5ec0f4a6abc0154723f7 SHA-256: f67538d799527ba9055c9d1ecc0ddac06f40ad3da3cad376270ea10810b3e11b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains XFA form data and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF exploit. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in the PDF reader to gain initial code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery URL. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/