Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3078f6f77d970ba3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.5 KB
MD5: 85f6c6caeb0623daff8a8ebc67e2e006 SHA-1: 396d53d9126375cc6c795759cf9fdf9257f7cde3 SHA-256: 3078f6f77d970ba3f864ec69ac2c03affa35e70757d84178ee06956d17c7b782
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's handling of XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct malicious intent is not confirmed by the provided heuristics.

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-36835 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36835
  • 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/