Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82811c0e7149bb71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 49e4854fba75b730fcb2f97e361ffad4 SHA-1: 4c7a27781eecce49d486437629df891710798e26 SHA-256: 82811c0e7149bb71a9e67a05c96cf38a8d4b99b409e4f6d8aaa4610d3f50b5dd
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary 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/