Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31e65ca42439f6a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 1f23e6e636a11b530622d26032b666e9 SHA-1: 3d85abaf95cf683bf6e223a592ee2a8d0af8a312 SHA-256: 31e65ca42439f6a1067d4576e4ac4dea69e8c31f95388cf91bab04332a3a3292
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to deliver a malicious payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and not directly indicative of a malicious destination.

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/