Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 334870ef69bc14dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 34ac960eb12b04dd64c78ad7f562b4c7 SHA-1: 1214d640082fa59d2f9549a98a679eb93a58098c SHA-256: 334870ef69bc14dc2101a9c35b1df5ceba243254dcc21e058f60d248d93c4c09
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit likely allows for arbitrary code execution upon opening the document in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery URL.

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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