Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8295c1ec70f12fcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: c7a1ecb544a4b14cabc79e78897347bd SHA-1: e7f7d304720019fe1346a035080ba79e8c1aaecb SHA-256: 8295c1ec70f12fcc92db0b13e533e7984ebc876cc26c26c8d1b6e87172c8e8a7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF document exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload, though no specific details of this payload were extracted.

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/