Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 269d9dc2251edee2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 3db753249b146c7f6cf790ebdf22b872 SHA-1: 7ff3433a7d0bce8533da8911db0e4f2f72858d9f SHA-256: 269d9dc2251edee2a503dca8805a266872ddfe179cb854921ff7d50e6a9a6882
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded XFA form data which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a malicious payload. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or a command and control channel.

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/