Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27b778a6c36a9452…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 92c331d93d03915504ada5bca92d12f3 SHA-1: 7759e22ccf08be5e621d27613f46f93e79df9a1b SHA-256: 27b778a6c36a945212340bf11e48448fc0e642f2921dbc621367ea3100d8e824
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 Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while likely benign in this context, is noted as part of the document structure.

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/