Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86d17372e5e75cd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 2f92078566e02cdc795459f743242d96 SHA-1: 056bf204ff0e86ad736e2fafd828375cb811b2f4 SHA-256: 86d17372e5e75cd8eefb9b8605fba7ded7ec007febdad04554d4b6afd8fd7734
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates the PDF exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is often used in conjunction with such exploits to download further stages of the attack.

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/