Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31576eef04515b1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 4ffe8532e8a1e6fd909d2273bf22a424 SHA-1: c236b0ce150f4f5631e562892e2e21a390e94836 SHA-256: 31576eef04515b1d648b94a49e0091718a9ba2a9930e0eb8a52eb91466626b54
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is likely used to achieve arbitrary code execution. An embedded URL was also found, though its reputation is unknown.

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/