Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b020ffdcfcc379a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: a238448253c4adc3c154a37f27214279 SHA-1: 307146ecfc2f7ef0ef55bcd9d0a00ba3c0065e2d SHA-256: 7b020ffdcfcc379a162b39f8e5cbc3acee00d32bc9c7dcaaa035d88177ec7d2a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but has no reputation. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/