Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28ba64a2501d502f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 688578958f94f0e324cf8ce266211b3c SHA-1: c1d8abe1a31f22eddf0b31bd58d3030714d06b9d SHA-256: 28ba64a2501d502f2a73129be92c901d0dcfbaebb1f1969399a00c5c4c68b72a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to execute malicious code upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template used in the exploit.

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/