Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 490a78ec70031f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 3ec54d60cd04fd53edda4386382e941a SHA-1: d16abac9d347142f4c78d5f5ce751b82e3bf73af SHA-256: 490a78ec70031f7f4c44450954cc1c7086dd93a198cfbcf21ba42efe83bd9732
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 match for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and could be used to load malicious content.

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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