Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bf43b1fd5aaef45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: bc03a693c35d1df9b1cee2cd2cb0aad6 SHA-1: e09494aec7320d4e46cb74808a6ee12b636bce9b SHA-256: 3bf43b1fd5aaef4521f25e0074b815026eb520c34591cbdfb740e963d886f6bf
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The exploit likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload.

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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