Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50751197cc859398…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4b2ae1cf43afc5679ab99f749a8fecd0 SHA-1: 7a14175259cf2d64dde371206f06e4684f9776d8 SHA-256: 50751197cc859398d267046502e19444627fe2e155cc88aabc7e651401ad892e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient to classify this as 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/