Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 360e9dfa1193b470…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 86ec1285dcf49330dbc44c9df6e6019b SHA-1: 2ffdf5749b8ed909b057f0f60fb7d7252c8e246a SHA-256: 360e9dfa1193b4709384e080985ccb8928a4d3d9e4e1e45fedee796cb0167528
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is known to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain.

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/