Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35ab996b3ee09736…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 448d3e9ba3a3276e2d62e5b1c0807b95 SHA-1: f7998fecd5a416c9ef02615a64390b5d36f96e5b SHA-256: 35ab996b3ee0973616570aebdf03ae34c9da355da7f793287d3a2de174dee789
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure. The heuristic firings strongly indicate an exploit attempt, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like content which, if executed, could further facilitate the exploit.

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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