Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eb1d54253478f53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 891c8cfe75673cef05b6fdf1811a60d2 SHA-1: a9e09e1ac1cecfc315760b26826014cf115cb19a SHA-256: 1eb1d54253478f53dc6df8629e0e772886410e361945d3cbbd80a1a958c99a02
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 exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The heuristic firings indicate that the exploit targets the LibTIFF component and delivers a payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit structure. The malware is likely a downloader or dropper, aiming to execute 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-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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