Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc292afde982c04e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 5b31622b5bf8db4947ac6b153f0f6d63 SHA-1: c55f7209cc23f1edced8e29397746f4b4c80fe35 SHA-256: fc292afde982c04efecf2cc8714ba836d6d3b341389e0c7bb00a2ca9003f76c1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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/