Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e426415974896aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.9 KB
MD5: 97aa95dabe9da5ea614ef791835e3669 SHA-1: 9618cef03af6e7f0bee048cdaee26994649b534c SHA-256: 7e426415974896aa9ab650eab0277aa0a38160fe65edb984e45f05cd56823ad7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form. Heuristics indicate it exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms, to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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/