Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89f0b21768e5300d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.4 KB
MD5: b66083fbf29b9f38f6818d3d17cfc40a SHA-1: fb97225fc22514f4bd3d60f768056b3fcf876933 SHA-256: 89f0b21768e5300d088d9f9164364ecd4013d9ce6773e1e598c9b3947ae4d8ad
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code on the victim's machine. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct malicious intent is not confirmed by the provided evidence.

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/