Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 475ff10eb2119dcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 12ed1f880ad98df73c3fb4a894e73615 SHA-1: 508369081d074985054462c02c5de31150a85f18 SHA-256: 475ff10eb2119dcff3b819ae06fdfe49aad4dcf6483cbd5700ab4d3fb97eeefa
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 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to leverage this vulnerability 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/