Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7117c3074682748…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.6 KB
MD5: 4e2185847797e80c4bee3a803859b454 SHA-1: 680bafc9711ce05ed1a67b9fee87f817882093e5 SHA-256: f7117c307468274820876009ec18ddeea4f066e0926a05dedfa1813accee0fb1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected critical heuristics indicating an exploit for CVE-2010-0188, which targets Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism. The exploit aims to execute arbitrary code, leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

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-36835 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36835
  • 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/