Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 225db6c6de2f8918…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ad853aecd92778b376223715b25291a8 SHA-1: edec0b7e9cca5f5e7eb062d9243e70395795665b SHA-256: 225db6c6de2f8918ebf76618df7de069a260bbeb3927c2f597f52f0c28cae6ff
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component within XFA form data. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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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