Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45175ac85e538672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.3 KB
MD5: c1c1a883bc1d5caaf1af24e17b701244 SHA-1: f01c73996743c604d331a8e8d1b439cc70ab0ba2 SHA-256: 45175ac85e538672359a97aa8e13efa9a52ee81bacd6b2151b474aa84ebc92ce
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 exploitation. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA. This exploit likely leads to arbitrary code execution. An embedded URL was also found, though its reputation is unknown.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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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