Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3aa723ab731f0ca9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f1ae381853863930112c77d869f0870a SHA-1: 36fcc3661bf1ee6b6b3c5df0cd6b4a296fdf3af1 SHA-256: 3aa723ab731f0ca99431a1dfc7a84436f27d67c2bed5a32f0bae2d3f1ddd09e2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. The presence of an embedded URL, although seemingly benign, is noted as part of the document's structure.

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/