Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a417bd987aebbd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.9 KB
MD5: c45f508b6b7c9dbb669d436a7e8655ff SHA-1: 5c8ed8ab32dec12876cd661ee7492a46187e4f32 SHA-256: 1a417bd987aebbd9196107fa1033bbab57b08bbeeb245e20d8001d7f498da61f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

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/