Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 431e735511a0c1a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 6923436d7a80e30a054f5ed0a02c44c4 SHA-1: af1b4daad03ff4bc00a8cbfc46fd77804ea5035d SHA-256: 431e735511a0c1a366b36475ca530f07ddfb84fabebee590d8d59c327a667875
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploiting Adobe Reader vulnerabilities. Specifically, the critical heuristic firing indicates a match for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting LibTIFF within Adobe Reader's XFA processing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template 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/