Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a27342ca4329572…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: b73f7cbd6b7ef382ca3bc25fcc65d2b0 SHA-1: 572e24e5f4f784229d4219dc93c5efce91cd3d1d SHA-256: 2a27342ca43295729f7c809b2c38b7fce125f6b1df445ccb823855b167f9866a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but no further malicious activity was directly observed.

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/