Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27ef9c6ea8c582d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 396d287645a40f95b6094974f4428a7b SHA-1: d784d01cb85a065dc1f4053e7099ebef6ce7314e SHA-256: 27ef9c6ea8c582d513a44a88aabb0772a6425c76757ca26db1b5d9e790f62d1b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability in PDF viewers to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit or a subsequent download stage. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is the primary attack vector.

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/