Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25a3d8b587fb4065…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 55c4cddda9f519f40e47f4f75c4617ed SHA-1: b49c9964a6416b4f41f08bdfdf58b6ad3ba50957 SHA-256: 25a3d8b587fb4065d107a0d9e6c6421694be33381e1eae8f7094d766cf29fb22
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting LibTIFF within Adobe Reader's XFA processing. 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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