Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 571fa52bbdb66d2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 02404a463ee5395213d6593e8ec591e3 SHA-1: 0986c836be5b072baed19379e7b5ef135ea4cc37 SHA-256: 571fa52bbdb66d2c0401d95ff5dd550be31e5878460a416ee75fcc5ce59e182f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability. This exploit targets Adobe Reader and is known to deliver a malicious payload. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector. No scripts were extracted, but the critical heuristic firings strongly indicate exploitation for initial execution.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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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