Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19fa5d5aa453c0b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 7050542421b794b24485b600dd373a71 SHA-1: 3bc4107a86ba3140b8365e6fefe0908084751f21 SHA-256: 19fa5d5aa453c0b45576e3ed62b565b289b259b5a0895fe96386231039da6c85
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic indicating the presence of the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery URL.

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-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
  • 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/