Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d05005a28a851e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.6 KB
MD5: c8c521044d11dfa0334f9fa53ccb3e18 SHA-1: a9aa24d221ef5ceef0bab05601fbd1876f8a3345 SHA-256: 7d05005a28a851e6c73b4020ce86b134f671a43467b58e1dfe0a754210bdb8ef
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a malicious payload. An embedded URL was also extracted, which may be related to the exploit delivery.

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-36835 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36835
  • 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/