Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4af1eacb0a6b772f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 3ba8f10fa44202624e0d746d8c312257 SHA-1: 4b76f49c30056f50714532474e768908e0376c92 SHA-256: 4af1eacb0a6b772f3a3946c8fc658063ddfb8e6717f187d74c7a7b781558ed0d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain.

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/