Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56c01275841ea4e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 9ea8f48285dfe723fdfc9606f928c437 SHA-1: 33f78411ee0b28ce596536b145ac9f8dc83745a0 SHA-256: 56c01275841ea4e3811711b61f952045498581d9d5bca000165e37413d410e63
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firings indicate exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit's structure.

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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