Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53c487e7b36b052f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: c24af984100ff7c6ae41bd83eb535a0b SHA-1: 23e57960ea35987e01b1757a74ae4037194f8861 SHA-256: 53c487e7b36b052fc50dea50b8094821e3a73261459166f1c37faf16e8ac6947
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. ClamAV also identified the file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821. 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/