Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fe20fd3a4899917…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.9 KB
MD5: 7b8df0c8d77106a97bd9fc4f54573e5b SHA-1: 3d4872db9aaba0c61844d94b52bb2531eb16d405 SHA-256: 2fe20fd3a48999172fd15776593b4263430879b1ef7a8b57cc866d3ea2e6a4b4
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that leverages XFA (XML Forms Architecture) to deliver a payload. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability exploit, specifically CVE-2010-0188, which targets Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and could potentially be used in conjunction with the exploit.

Heuristics 5

  • 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-36831 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36831
  • XFA numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • 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/