Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d7a37b5f665ee3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: f841401da112d1c8b105f8e0ca564605 SHA-1: 717bf9a04772558adc13d780996d89e82ae3a17c SHA-256: 1d7a37b5f665ee3e845853586d9d379ec51488a1b3382fed9a9d27c0bf00376a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms and LibTIFF. This indicates the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit structure.

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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