Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fbfb329ada9a27b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.1 KB
MD5: cb0845d85fbfd495e7f729509ac89e94 SHA-1: 43c93dedb6a7fc13c94a6d5aa9bc1534083d1550 SHA-256: 2fbfb329ada9a27b23795dc1f32bdc1a328f4f3145b1cea5a27e0cb3128ecc97
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA form data and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit is known to be used for delivering second-stage malware. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be directly malicious.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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/