Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a15a51195367fd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4c83f1684b87f60f1531985bc2dd7286 SHA-1: 0155045cc08d84901009adf477d5ae559b24ef21 SHA-256: 8a15a51195367fd294eda58ad68971e08d8c1a5635c187f594bd3799113dd967
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploits. Specifically, the CVE-2010-0188 exploit was detected, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF within XFA payloads. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. 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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