Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4de8d7d07a7438b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 1049965aa9dbcf64b87cbb30c9a94130 SHA-1: ea56802564c74df63c57ec14690405233e09dbf6 SHA-256: 4de8d7d07a7438b840e861ba50f35d9e970d1d05e589f0766eaf987e4c558f59
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The exploit targets the LibTIFF component to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary malicious activity is the exploit itself.

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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