Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eef981df302de11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: b070cd80baade7d2b2f68056bc8d5172 SHA-1: b5f3e8d9c195d2a63ef22a6a2d09f6e092b9fcb5 SHA-256: 1eef981df302de11e9091b0e0bbf602599470eb02a41bbf90dc6803c3d687a09
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is often used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and may be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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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