Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 856f582393b5a152…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 30941f772927ade193d82458421338d6 SHA-1: bbcdf4e8aadab73b4f41ac2dd04ac700aa5af660 SHA-256: 856f582393b5a152a20695304306b1b9c0d0d0e5e2964aaff72307a02fecc4a3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded URL and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in the reader to execute arbitrary code. The XFA form structure is often used to deliver such exploits.

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/