Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35929551d9005bc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: d67ff417bbcc4ea52ed226df9ead3614 SHA-1: 9c4fae1515c3a85912c94ab38bc87a112d6177a5 SHA-256: 35929551d9005bc1d8bb511eb901f295fb37832b13831c2b7c13b56d7f9ca69c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which is leveraged by the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but no further malicious activity was observed in the static analysis.

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/