Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3de934ab37f8889f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 6ed15c34311ed33da709eb0cd61ff215 SHA-1: 9462e12e2163c430481d2294a9b1799a1ff75498 SHA-256: 3de934ab37f8889f2e99b2d1fdfbd9f5487b2729d11b8c141458c4286b23f9f2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting LibTIFF within the XFA payload. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to achieve code execution upon opening.

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/