Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29497d34e5d6e5ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: f8892a38a85f386fcddb610410ef826d SHA-1: 4ebf9b3a8531f37c10b7b9fbb2839d1d56243e51 SHA-256: 29497d34e5d6e5ff503e5d9bc73e18048e1848e60b3379c2ab98dbd8145f6efc
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be a lure or part of the exploit chain.

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/