Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 573c84ec55dcba78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: b47e317f82c8ecdacb33d517713e8f81 SHA-1: 49fa9cd58ddd3424d5f48518e076b6ca4f8a7bc3 SHA-256: 573c84ec55dcba78a2193301b3829d91621a0c1224ad086665e6efb844771c72
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to compromise the user's system via a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is associated with XFA templates and likely part of the exploit chain. The document body content is heavily obfuscated and does not provide further clues on the specific lure.

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/