Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3165dba5bf136ce5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 08fec01eb5383d3c8b1d0bbc6f78747a SHA-1: 2ad70ddac1b389e117912bc5d9e99010e4e6d5b4 SHA-256: 3165dba5bf136ce551c9d2fbf0c6a732522455b462928f3bbbd25ea15b7a82cb
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA images. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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/

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