Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a49a08a1dc62b09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 0b5da3c6e63d18e0c8b9358e0ef1f9c1 SHA-1: 64cc80264fcd0405bd7d05c3e75243fd5e1d0ba2 SHA-256: 3a49a08a1dc62b09c6642de47acc45e0545cddc5816187f1d0d1687c01290d2e
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. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is likely used to achieve arbitrary code execution upon opening the document. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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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