Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 575ec2bf779e3686…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 4483b6046500fea1dbaebea59648ab2b SHA-1: adf8aea5592483b6be950ad4c6b152e1ee190045 SHA-256: 575ec2bf779e3686f17f681068e8324e09417eabc524b3b1245d285639340603
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, as indicated by critical heuristic firings. The embedded URL, though seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript that likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, a common technique for this exploit.

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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