Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 35f32cea88e64380…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 728544be0e6a657c563104e9c63f49a9 SHA-1: edc107bb14868549d1fc65e8aab7cea641b61cff SHA-256: 35f32cea88e64380b39fb6d2b64729a8ae980203f60e1807f9b7781eaede53d1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA forms. This indicates the file is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but has no reputation.

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/