Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cd75de8bb19c905…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2797a565eff86b40ef89f96c12fdf4f9 SHA-1: 1c2f3f25cc0b078e49bc2e18d5bd3ee83eb1b0be SHA-256: 4cd75de8bb19c9053179816ff13ed92bd50ab7ec2832ff5b29f137ed51e9f0e2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism.

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/