Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c7feed9817ccd1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ab2a3e9cb095c175e18b0a4ae0e18f6c SHA-1: d20e2201bd9ca459bd5b7b1a0b4e86bc41c674e7 SHA-256: 3c7feed9817ccd1cb3e843fb9b846c4afa55890e6c8fa82c114e2f4c465bcfea
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic 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 on a vulnerable system. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

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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