Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa3dcee5fc5b1994…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: cc66c13b65bdbb4aa1c354f4be6b0e1f SHA-1: 2fa6e7d7a51c2e4b33a23fe38ecc56168748e26c SHA-256: fa3dcee5fc5b1994623343dc8711f757f4ea01f8b9d52d7f4e0ee2c971240b71
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and exhibits characteristics of the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload, though no script content was directly extracted to confirm specific actions.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/