Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b70a4e3f277155e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: c389f870bd54a80117de21837fb4396a SHA-1: 38b126b2944341cf6b118d1637f7faec009f20d2 SHA-256: 8b70a4e3f277155e612d6ef2a1697a93d9ed3f4d3f0a7d2a34d192193f949e92
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA forms. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability for client-side code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but has no reputation.

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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