Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45fc982393da0ec0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 1c57a811a0ad0b98980e9d561dd339af SHA-1: a6ea5140a30db079b4474d1c3e1416db2bcd627c SHA-256: 45fc982393da0ec08563cfb0d5c38386e82e5b3e9cee631ad207604d2fc76b6b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability to achieve code execution. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates.

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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