Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28c483d3ca82dff8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 729a4483dfb6977a9f50a0b6f4054788 SHA-1: 9d4bfd9d40b848fe41024eab95497421968b52aa SHA-256: 28c483d3ca82dff8d327582b64ca75e82fb2783e1cf85b85518fd28a83575f85
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and a critical vulnerability exploit, CVE-2010-0188, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload from the embedded URL.

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/