Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 590bce19bdb71e97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 434c9cbacc1e2723df647dd9d3256375 SHA-1: 91adb22dc5c4d38e0412f4b50aa1c890dc3e392a SHA-256: 590bce19bdb71e975f326fcb0152e202726bf000a4521b4822be34b0dcb71d3f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploits. Specifically, the CVE-2010-0188 exploit was detected, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA images. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit infrastructure.

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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