Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a87447e94edcb62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: a8c759e8f2a5f07de8cc02bef9d9e962 SHA-1: 635943b2a4e46d8cab9f05e89dc9cf9c18da96a2 SHA-256: 4a87447e94edcb62f17f481dda0ede6c14a0415d93b1823c5625c825a01489e9
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The file is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be directly malicious.

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/