Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20701d746e5a3bd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: a297e73e749a7b24851830dc450e7a30 SHA-1: dc80b4dce1079ad40baf22d11a2fd1a79ca4f5cb SHA-256: 20701d746e5a3bd0dc39cb57618f384ce0bfb99546bba38e49757beaa719ad62
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and may be used in the exploitation chain.

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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