Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bc97e480d352a42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: c1d153d9479ec2d62a49dc69c0b9949b SHA-1: 2fe0c1afb4c4948047186bf5b14a197602a81a26 SHA-256: 1bc97e480d352a428c7bddb75657b4a2fdcbe9b62d945a162dc0f846eeda8f78
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form, which is a known vector for exploiting Adobe Reader vulnerabilities. Specifically, the critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of the LibTIFF component within XFA. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a second-stage payload, although no specific payload details were extracted. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but has an unknown reputation.

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/

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