Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff41dfcb16dd3598…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 72a336ffa494199c9a3bb11057e6464b SHA-1: e31c7e499218826eadcf68499d279004b2a1fe4f SHA-256: ff41dfcb16dd3598798b4fc518997f4234e6c585767f917cc261ea6c5a6df716
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and likely used in the exploit chain. The attack pattern involves luring a user to open a malicious PDF that exploits a known vulnerability.

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/