Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 579096f59e88afe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2e14f4a767515c75d894cb011c92f406 SHA-1: 090710a7777ce8446e8aa181fe14778ecd608573 SHA-256: 579096f59e88afe2c13b248df2b2344ccc3b9f3afba12ee13737b55393ff4fb6
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The file is a PDF document that leverages an XFA form to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to be used for delivering various malware payloads. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

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/