Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae18e117514b777…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 80593a5f1b7cd8c0ca2725bf59c154e6 SHA-1: 4c96bf099b9b45d385055b8e64191fdef1cb0d38 SHA-256: 1ae18e117514b7779fc81891d3642175cbd9b5379b9b7c5e20cca8115b3898e3
128 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's LibTIFF component. This exploit likely leads to arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit infrastructure.

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/