Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d71b03990753d32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 38201c2f85b86b1d33d73d714f83c26a SHA-1: c77d2b1bc02d298bc6123888d38517bfbd5bbf0f SHA-256: 1d71b03990753d32ef4cff459032239af797c03cbafd9be011bf2bdb315870a5
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain. The decoded XFA payload suggests the execution of a second-stage payload.

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/