Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa9d4a734674929c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4484f0de74862697341273d738b37d9d SHA-1: e787ef3c4aaca17441a818ce9d4178d1f7cf9724 SHA-256: fa9d4a734674929cabae9af824883338d5c3a7d83dc649bbade2f0906f2af72b
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery URL. The document body content is obfuscated and does not provide further clues on the specific payload.

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/

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