Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88e40abb4af44c75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 7de13237ec3b42fd82e415cf5a3b5fcb SHA-1: 54b7a92370698775d1e113b49dd03aab9f868549 SHA-256: 88e40abb4af44c75c190c29a071a1290601c1ddbc682bf5d842f17d9959f71e2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting LibTIFF within Adobe Reader's XFA processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. 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/

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