Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bc5ec974b58a307…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 6de737aa7e74189f97581a4aeb3612fa SHA-1: 0182b1a40b56191bd35b5f91940fa1b970f18192 SHA-256: 1bc5ec974b58a30705b01cade23bfdd1967dfabd5aa9b96fc6cf4eabef79e382
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution upon opening the document. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and likely part of the exploit chain.

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/