Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46f5f52db80e439d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: ab34d20ed72d3e701fe22e0551376d3f SHA-1: 71f7b940629b20bb26c49b919e2511338650ff34 SHA-256: 46f5f52db80e439d05027efff3a5efb336fa991b5bc59d591e145c6812b63c32
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while likely benign in this context, is noted as part of the document structure. The exploit's nature suggests it's a downloader or dropper for a secondary payload.

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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