Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46febed11c9de20f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 1062f4df2447d21a846e04eb388f2178 SHA-1: 705e9db41e7829660aae59e839e1f93d771e25b6 SHA-256: 46febed11c9de20fe577e40af1660cc557f5d4a83945ec0f40538b00761cf8f7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is embedded within an XFA form, a common technique for delivering exploits in PDF files. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is part of the XFA template structure. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of a known vulnerability upon opening the document.

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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