Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ba9df3d71b02622…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 0c9e81bfd5860e5153388d0381842068 SHA-1: 2726b9b21a2befc586d49997afdcc0915b469537 SHA-256: 1ba9df3d71b02622fe2285a71b112a757b41cf1c3929e7ea47fdc753c27ea7d6
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a PDF document that utilizes XFA forms, triggering critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit. This indicates the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is part of the XFA template structure. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is the primary attack 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/

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