Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c1ac2eb993c6aaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 04a15fc4ccd2fe76848d58c9bb2b2f9c SHA-1: 8038ccdbb506722aaa6f45fd812e9b747156985a SHA-256: 1c1ac2eb993c6aaad0b72e6921eed7235465706e200f1b500ff2bc8c704e250c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but no further malicious activity was observed in the static analysis.

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/