Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c1b9859bbf850cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.8 KB
MD5: 6bdad366244325aa2e02bb933c0f270e SHA-1: cc6981d5d435a048a3df83dbc498d9f4f855567f SHA-256: 8c1b9859bbf850cc6933948f708624098b193137e8a593d1d907766d3341b928
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be a lure or part of the exploit chain.

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/