Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c2d77cc69bae012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 23cbc0a7894a65b172da0ae15bd5ba5b SHA-1: 0af8f420b58fd9e317ad8543eaad6634b4e5e0df SHA-256: 8c2d77cc69bae012ca09572a3d4d0d83a5e7124bb62a7cb4236abdfb81ef2042
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which is known to be vulnerable to CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. 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 URL.

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/