Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e762472ef4f5920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.5 KB
MD5: cf2bcc89fb69742cd392443aca425ab8 SHA-1: 030f0e96bd7471aeb0d4cb959c3557970bec8f41 SHA-256: 1e762472ef4f5920c003767bb48bbfe7b03df8a24ebc179821057108db8089bf
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firings indicate exploitation of CVE-2010-0188 via an XFA form in Adobe Reader, which is a known method for initial code execution. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure. The exploit likely leads to the download and execution of a secondary 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/

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